George Taylor: There's your Minister of Science; honor-bound to expand the frontiers of knowledge... Dr. Zira: Taylor, please! George Taylor: ...except that he's also chief Defender of the Faith! Dr. Zaius: There is no contradiction between faith and...
Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.
At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.
I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.
What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.
Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.
If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
