Irving Langmuir | science
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist’s search for truth.
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Tim Ferriss | science
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: ‘Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?’ From what I’ve seen, it’s not likely.
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Shelby Foote | science
I’m crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don’t like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
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Arthur Holly Compton | science
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
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Bruce Boxleitner | science
They’ve also asked me now to start on another series that we’re gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it’s not science fiction, it’s more in the Mystery and Crime division and that’s another area I’m very interested in.
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Aravind Adiga | science
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
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Christine Gregoire | science
We’ve established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.
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James Wood | science
I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.
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Elizabeth Moon | science
It may be far in the future, but there’s some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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Jerry Pournelle | science
I started in this racket in the early ’70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
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