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“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”

Author:Halford Luccock

“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.”

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.”

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Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“A theory must be tempered with reality.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Nothing you can't spell will ever work.”

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Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.”

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Author:Karl Lehenbauer

“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”

“Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.”

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Author:Portia Simpson-Miller

“You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.”

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Author:Len Evans

“You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.”

“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.”

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Author:Johan Huizinga

“Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.”

“Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.”

Source: Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

“A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.”

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Author:Rick Larsen

“Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.”

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Author:Ivar Giaever

“There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.”

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Author:Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

“I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either, just generally I think as conservatives we should embrace innovation, embrace technology, embrace science. ... Sometimes I sense that we pull back from the embrace of these things. We shouldn't.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.”

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Author:Eric Allman

“It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!”

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Author:Ralph Bakshi

“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.”

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Author:Tom Duff

“The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.”

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Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.”

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Author:Dennis Overbye

“This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.”

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Author:Michael Swanwick

“Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.”

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Author:Larry Wall

“The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!”

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Author:Jim Warner

“I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.”

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Author:Duke of Wellington

“A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.”

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Author:Evelyn Waugh

“I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.”

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Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.”

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Author:Kenneth G. Wilson

“In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.”

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Author:George Andrews

“They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.”

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Author:Billie Holiday

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”

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Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.”

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Book:The Crystal Bucket

Source: The Crystal Bucket

“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”

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Author:Immanuel Kant

“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”

“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”

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Author:J. G. Ballard

“The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.”

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Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”

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Book:Autobiography of values

Source: Autobiography of values