Pastoral Resources

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

I am appalled at the state of discord in the field of climate science. There is no observational evidence that the addition of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have caused any temperature perturbations in the atmosphere.

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.