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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
A conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
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.
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
When in trouble, when in doubt,
run in circles, scream and shout
To err is human. And stupid.
"The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."-- Aldous Huxley
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
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."-- Noam Chomsky
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?-- Kelvin Throop III
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
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.-- Steven Wright
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.-- George Bernard Shaw
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)
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
"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."-- Mahatma Gandhi
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
"Science has made gods of us before we were even worthy of being men."-- Jean Rostand
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.-- Steven Wright
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."-- Stephen Butler Leacock
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.-- Albert Einstein
Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time. (A coffee cup)
Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains arouse me.
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
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
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
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."-- George Santayana
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.-- Adam Smith
Destinesia: The act of entering a room and forgetting why.
"If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?"
"Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area."
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it anymore, and what's it seems weird and scary.-- Abraham Simpson
Practical or mean and sneaky? - getting a permanent heart tatoo on your arm and getting three-day temporary tatoos for the names.
"Ahh, Mr. Scott, I understand you're having difficulty with the warp drive. How much time do you require for repair?"
"There's nothing wrong with the bloody thing!"
"Mr. Scott, if we return to Spacedock, the assassins will surely find a way to dispose of their incriminating footwear, and we will never see the captain, or Dr. McCoy, alive again"
"Could take weeks, sir"
"Thank you, Mr. Scott"-- Spock and Scotty (Star Trek VI)
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.-- Helen Keller
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -- that is why they invented hell."-- Bertrand Russell
feet and stones may break my bones, but metrics are more comprehensive
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but so would an 80 pound carrot.
"There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you."-- Dave Barry
Thermalophobia (thur muh lo fo' be uh), n: The fear when showering that someone will sneak in, flush the toilet, and scald you to death.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")