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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the ''higher life.''
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Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
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Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
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Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.
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Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
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