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.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed scolded and beamed at the world.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
It will free man from the remaining chains the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony which would have been an extremely sad loss.
I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
There is the glamour side of it which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
Before I left for Germany I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about which is really sad.
And for some reason when I'm sad I do listen to Leonard Cohen I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood as opposed to sticking on Motown which might actually bring my mood up.
I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad because no one else can see these perceived flaws they're entirely internal.
To the indefinite uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement a sort of intellectual hash which has neither taste nor character.
In Mississippi you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South which is sad.