When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt... →
George Porter
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
Emily Post
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care... →
Virginia Postrel
Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed.... →
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth... →
Jerry Pournelle
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I... →
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
Cecil Frank Powell
When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and... →
Samantha Power