The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.
Science began to be irrelevant when mankind were protected from nature instead of protecting nature from mankind.
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.
Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prej...
Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact” with extraterrestrials. I am invited to “ask them anything.” And so over the years I’ve prepared a little list of questions. The extraterrestrials are very advanced, remember. So...
Why are you all quarrelling about whether certain miracles were or were not performed nineteen centuries ago in Palestine? Why must you be certain of those particular miracles, before you can believe in God? To-day, at this very moment, you are surro...
The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and im...
One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perha...
