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It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.


Steve Jobs
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.


Ursula K. Le Guin
Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
Dean Kamen
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In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.


Kenneth G. Wilson
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
Sean Penn
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Ernest Istook
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
Bill Nye
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas Sowell
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson
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The simplest science book is over my head.


James Merrill
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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
Stewart Brand
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God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.


Stephen Hawking
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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
John Charles Polanyi
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.


Simone Weil
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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?


Francis Collins
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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
Charles Edward Montague
I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
Robert Winston
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There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.


Seth MacFarlane