Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an aw...

Sloane Crosley

Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness ...

Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

I placed some of the DNA on the ends of my fingers and rubbed them together. The stuff was sticky. It began to dissolve on my skin. 'It's melting -- like cotton candy.' 'Sure. That's the sugar in the DNA,' Smith said. 'Would it taste sweet?' 'No. DNA...

The Best American Science Writing 2001

How do we change the way science is taught? Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and you never come up with more than the fingers on one hand. You remember their names, you remember what they did, you remember how they...

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

The ultimate singularity is the Big Bang, which physicists believe was responsible for the birth of the universe. We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, at a single point and for no discernible reason. Th...

True Hallucinations

Of course present knowledge of psychology is nearer to zero than to complete perfection, and its applications to teaching must therefore be often incomplete, indefinite, and insecure. The application of psychology to teaching is more like that of bot...

The Principles of Teaching: Based on Psychology

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go h...

The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certa...

Trattato della pittura

Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space via Lake City housewife Mrs. Marian Keech, becomes the subject of a research team led by psychologist Leon Festin...

Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of gaps and uncertainties. In no other scientific field would it be n...

Sigmund Freud

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of...

Albert Einstein

The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't be all the trouble there was.

Cat's Cradle

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

Culpa Innata

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.

Coral: A Pessimist In Paradise

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

Emile or On Education

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

On Growth and Form

, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

The Grammar of Science

God, I swear I’ve never seen a more nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

The Guardian's Wildchild

was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.

A History Of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 To 1930

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza