Science
- Serum amyloid P component, the identical serum form of Amyloid P component
- Seminal acid phosphatase, an enzyme produced by the prostate
- Superabsorbent polymer, a polymer able to absorb tens or hundreds of times its own weight in water
- Shrimp Alkaline phosphatase, a common alkaline phosphatase from a species of arctic shrimp
- Strong anthropic principle, the idea proposing that the universe must produce life
- Self-avoiding polygon, a mathematical object of geometry
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“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.... Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)