Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
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Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something — reality — that may not be understood at all.
Michael Crichton in Travels
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In this complex world, science, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the
human race is doing and to wherever we are going. If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.
quote by Robert Heinlein
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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
quote by Woodrow Wilson
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
quote by Lord Acton
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Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. In this respect, as in many others, it's like democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible consequences of alternative courses of action.
quote by Carl Sagan
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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
quote by Frederik Pohl
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You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.
Intellect: A Forbidden Fruit
Soul and Super soul
Two separate entity
But only one identity
Merging into each other
Having understood it
Getting away with confusion
Acquiring the final salvation
Leaving those animal instincts
And working hard for supreme goal
Man tries to become God
But then question rises-
Does he become God
Or turns into an evil
For Satan had also been an angel
Second in rank after God
What led him to destruction
Were both ego and ambition
Are they sign of animality
Or outcome of intellectuality
For animals do not long
For the knowledge forbidden
It is the wisdom of Man
The reason and rationality
That makes him proud
And thinks different
From others
He thinks he has become
An angel or Almighty
But-In reality
He is only a Man
A Man-
Full of weakness
Passion and emotion
Desiring for happiness
Trying to avoid sadness.
poem by Vaibhav Shah
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
quote by Aldous Huxley
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My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
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Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
quote by James M. Baldwin
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Life is not a goal; it is also an instrument, like death, like beauty, like virtue, like knowledge. Whose instrument? Of that God who fights for freedom. We are all one, we are all an imperiled essence.
quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
quote by Karel Capek
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While science and technology play critical roles in sustaining modern civilization, they are not part of our culture in the sense that they are not commonly studied or well comprehended. Neither the potential nor the limitations of science are understood so that what can be achieved and what is beyond reach are not comprehended. The line between science and magic becomes blurred so that public judgments on technical issues can be erratic or badly flawed. It frequently appears that some people will believe almost anything. Thus judgments can be manipulated or warped by unscrupulous groups. Distortions or outright falsehoods can come to be accepted as fact.
quote by Henry Way Kendall
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What is there to know
What is there to know
Nothing
There are so many things
We know nothing.
We should know you
You are the only person
We should know
You are holding all.
Spark is coming from you
We all are within that spark
Knowledge and science are
Part of you.
We are to know and cultivate
Knowledge and science
You possessed all
Only for our welfare.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Love is the garment of knowledge. The soul first trains itself by systematic unknowing until at last it confronts the only reality, the only knowledge, God manifest in itself. The soul can say nothing about this
experience in the sense of defining it. It can only reveal it to others.
quote by Kenneth Rexroth
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
quote by James Madison
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The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
quote by Eric Schmidt
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Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
quote by Frederick Sanger
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