Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting truth, but to set a limit on everlasting error.
Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.
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