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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Edward Teller

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.

Carl Sagan

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -Paul Dirac.

Paul Dirac

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.

E. Rutherford

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Bertrand Russell

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

Sir Henry Tizard

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

Lewis Mumford

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.

John Dewey

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.

Maxwell Planck

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Jean Rostand

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.

C.g. Jung

Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Huxley

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

J. G. Ballard

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.

Isaac Asimov

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.

Isaac Asimov

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

Science is nothing but perception.

Francis Plato

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Paul Dirac

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Edsgar W. Dijkstra

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