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[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.