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Hindsight is an exact science.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.-- H. L. Mencken
Ever since Hume's analysis of causation, it has been clear that events in the world are not connected by necessity. "Laws of nature" are descriptive, not legislative. They are devised by man for the purpose of organizing his expeience. Einstein wrote:
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logocally uniform system of thought. ... The sense-experiences are the given subject-matter. But the theory that shall interpret them is man-made. ... hypothetical, never completely final, always subject to question and doubt.
('Pragmatism and Science')
Computer Science without FORTRAN and COBOL is like birthday cake without ketchup and mustard.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.-- Albert Einstein
Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.-- Angus Gray
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
A conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.
Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. It's the only way to make progress.-- Havelock Vetinari
Science is the belief that we don't need belief to know most things.
When in danger, when in doubt,
run in circles, scream and shout.
When in trouble, when in doubt,
run in circles, scream and shout
"The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."-- Aldous Huxley
There's a common component of scientific thought which says that a) if you're not a convicted Scientist then you can't get involved in discussions about Science and b) Science is all about Progress and means that things will always get better if Scientists are in Control.-- Neil Lewis
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."-- Noam Chomsky
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.-- Tim Minchin
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?-- Kelvin Throop III
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."-- Isaac Asimov
Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinded critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all." (Stargate SG-1)
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."-- Stephen Butler Leacock
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.-- George Bernard Shaw
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.-- Steven Wright
"Science has made gods of us before we were even worthy of being men."-- Jean Rostand
"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."-- Mahatma Gandhi
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.-- Steven Wright
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.-- Charles Darwin
Imaginative writers are valuable colleagues and their testimony is to be rated very highly because they draw on sources that we have not yet made accessible to science. The portrayal of the psychic life of human beings is, of course, the imaginative writer's most special demand. He has always been the forerunner of science and thus scientific psychology, too.-- Sigmund Freud