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Mary Kay Ash
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Isaac Asimov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Alvin Toffler
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Stephen Hawking
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
Elon Musk
Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
George Santayana
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Arthur C. Clarke
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Heinrich Heine
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
W. H. Auden
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Paul Valery
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Jean Rostand
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Frederick Douglass
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Albert Einstein
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Eminem
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Ronald Reagan
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Robert Kennedy
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.