"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance." ― Hippocrates Topic(s): Science More From Hippocrates "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." "Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance." "A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses." More In Science "I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years."― David Chalmers "As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography."― Norman Spinrad "A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction."― Frederik Pohl