Quotes of: Sciences Keyword

In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The one big fact is that science traffics in ignorance, cultivates it, and is driven by it.

Ignorance: How it drives science

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.

The Resistance

The inhibition of an inhibitor leads to the activation of an inhibitor of an inhibitory pathway. This is the point where most people might be tempted to give up on biochemistry!

Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport

Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn't have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate...Hydrogen bombs will not produce themselves.

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.

Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology

But nothing compared to the reality of the magnificent Light Storm of 2015, nothing, that is, except the almond shaped emerald eyes of his passenger.

Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not sc...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

Screwtape Letters

Among the many who fruitlessly attempted thoughout history to create a time machine, one individual actually succeeded. He was surprisingly not a human.

Strange Science Fiction and Fantasy Omnibus

Owen remarked "The basis of science and art is magical - vice versa, magic is art and science. It goes both ways. There's not ever black and white...in magic or in anything to my way of thinking.

Sweet Sorcerer

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Shaping Things