When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.
You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. - William James
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. - William James
Scientists inform us that you build a new body every eleven months; so from a physical standpoint you are really only eleven months old. - Joseph Murphy
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. - Naomi Wolf
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. - Jules Verne
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover. - Jules Verne
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. - Jules Verne
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