Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

June Jordan

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

Bill Nye

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Charles B. Rangel

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Bacon

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Frederik Pohl

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincare

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Huston Smith

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

John Desmond Bernal

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Joseph Glanvill

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

Jack Horner

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

John Charles Polanyi

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Jack Vance

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

Matt Smith

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Michael Shermer

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Naguib Mahfouz

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Nancy Pearcey

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Sally Ride

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Terry Pratchett

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Wernher von Braun