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• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

  Paul Nurse

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• I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

  Paul Nurse

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• I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

  Paul Nurse

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• Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

  Claude Vorilhon

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• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  A. E. van Vogt

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• It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  Edouard Manet

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• I’ve always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

  John Robert Rietz Jr.

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• I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

  Thomas Love Peacock

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• Science, which is not so attached to ‘truth’ as it once was, ut more to immediate ‘effectiveness’, is now drifting towards a decline, it’s civic fall from grace.

  Paul Virilio

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• The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

  Rudolf Virchow

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• Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

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• But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

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• The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

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• Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we’ve made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

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• Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

  Alan Mathison Turing

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• The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

  Robert Bork

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• Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

  Ernst Mach

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• The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  Ernst Mach

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• Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

  Ernst Mach

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• But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.

  Bill Condon

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