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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders.
Science teachers do it with test tubes.
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.
-- Edward Abbey...
Science tries to tell us interesting and constructive stories that might be useful for something.
-- Rich Ulrich...
Science without religion is lame, religion without Science is blind. -- Albert Einstei
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties.
Scienta sine arte nihil est: ars sine scientia nihil est.
Scientific American, July 1991: The column describes an insect-like robot and then relates an incident in which a curious visitor, upon seeing the thing for the first time, asks "is it a bug?
The...
Scientific and humanist approaches are not competitive but supportive, and both are ultimately necessary.
-- Robert C. Wood...

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