When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
Scott Thompson
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a... →
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Edward Thorndike
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the... →
Kip Thorne
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving... →
Sebastian Thrun
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of... →
On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science... →
John F. Tierney