“Science is--or should be--the greenest force of all.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

As quoted in "Heroes of the Environment 2008" http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841779_1841803,00.html in Time (24 September 2008)

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Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) Italian artist

(Manuscript, 1914); as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 148
Futurist Manifesto of Men's clothing,' 1913/1914

“Magic, or rather magical power, comprehends two things, a science and a force: without the force the science is nothing, or rather it is a danger.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magi Part I: The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic By Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), Translated by A. E. Waite, England, Rider & Company, England, 1896, Introduction p. 11

“… science is the most revolutionary force in the world.”

George Sarton (1884–1956) American historian of science

[George Sarton, A guide to the history of science: a first guide for the study of the history of science, with introductory essays on science and tradition, Chronica Botanica Co., 1952, 3]

“The science of arithmetic may be called the science of exact limitation of matter and things in space, force, and time.”

Francis Wayland Parker (1837–1902) Union Army officer

Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 64. Reported in Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/81/mode/2up, (1914), p. 263

“Economics is the most human of sciences. It is the science of wants and frustrations. It is psychology subject to the abstract, amplifying forces of mathematics.”

Ian McDonald book The Dervish House

Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 2, §8 (p. 72)

“Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.”

Paul A. Samuelson (1915–2009) American economist

[Samuelson, Paul Anthony, Puttaswamaiah, K., 2002, Paul Samuelson and the Foundations of Modern Economics, 10 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_Lvflq4Wv-wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA10]
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