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• The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you’ve ever seen a space IMAX movie, that’s really what it looks like. I wish I’d had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

  David McDowell Brown

  Topics in Movies

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• Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

  Daniel Nathans

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• It’s very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

  Daniel Keys Moran

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• Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

  Santosh Kalwar

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• Science is the poetry of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

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• Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

  Burton Richter

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• Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

  David John Chalmers

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• I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

  David John Chalmers

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• Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

  David Hume

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• How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

  David Hilbert

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• I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

  David Eagleman

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• I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

  David Eagleman

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• People wouldn’t even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

  David Eagleman

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• There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

  David Eagleman

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• Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

  David Crane

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• An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

  Bruno Rossi

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• Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

  Bruno Mars

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• But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

  David Brin

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• Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I’ve had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and I’m not happy to be right in all of those cases.

  David Brin

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• There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

  David Brin

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