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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
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The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
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''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
Source: Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy. -
A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.
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After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
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All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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