“In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.”
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“Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.”
“No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.”
“The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.”
“If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.”
“The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.”
“Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.”
“As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.”
“I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.”
“But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.”
“Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.”
“We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.”
“But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.”
“Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.”
“There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.”
“I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.”
“One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.”
“My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.”
“We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.”
“It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.”
“I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.”
“All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.”
“In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.”
“We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.”