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Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Roger Bannister

Science

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

J. G. Ballard

Science

Technology

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Francis Bacon

Science

Truth

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Charles Babbage

Science

Criticism