#scienc

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #cannot #last #mystery #nature

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#clearly #fiction #had #lot #reading

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#care #ellison #enough #fiction #hard

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. ↗

— Irving Layton

#halo #self-esteem

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#i #lame #member #political #political science

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#chaos #contrived #foothold #living #phenomena

This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#brought #california #campus #continued #dean

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. ↗

— Walter Reisch

#aim #earth #feet #galaxies #greatest