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Quotes About Diversity

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.
~ Paul Feyerabend
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
~ Charles Hard Townes
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
~ William James
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
~ Thomas Huxley
To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
~ Barack Obama
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
~ Joss Whedon
There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.
~ Ahmed H. Zewail
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
~ Richard Owen
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.
~ Robert Mayer
First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.
~ Paul Feyerabend
The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.
~ Seth MacFarlane
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
~ Julien Benda
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
~ Louis Kronenberger
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
~ Thomas Sowell
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
~ Martin Fleischmann
Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.
~ Andrew Saul
Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.
~ Nella Larsen, Passing
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
~ Stephen Hawking
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.
~ Frederick Lenz
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.
~ Sarah Sutton
In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.
~ Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.
~ Freeman A. Hrabowski III
The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates
~ H. Bentley Glass
One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
~ Hugh Howey