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Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a 'waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.