Science And Scientists

(246 votes)   The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American Psychologist

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(223 votes)   Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never

Woody Allen
1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian

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(201 votes)   The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(190 votes)   O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Thomas Campbell
1777-1844, Scottish Poet

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(189 votes)   Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(184 votes)   Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Mike Adams

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(147 votes)   Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(130 votes)   But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Antonin Artaud
1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist

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(128 votes)   I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1922-, American Novelist

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(126 votes)   True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(119 votes)   Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(97 votes)   In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(97 votes)   What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.

Ursula K. Le Guin
1929-, American Author

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(92 votes)   If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Ursula K. Le Guin
1929-, American Author

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(91 votes)   Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

John Donne
1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet

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