“Scientists never study the important things. Like why some animals seem to have evolved the ability to gloat.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Your scientists were so caught up up in wether they could or not, they didn't stop to think if they should.” — Jurassic Park Copy Share Image
“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought… — Henry Fonda Copy Share Image
“Take three grains of sand and put them in the middle of a vast cathedral. Now the cathedral is as full with… — Vedang Sati Copy Share Image
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. — James Black Copy Share Image
Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money. — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half. — Arthur Kornberg Copy Share Image
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When scientists use the word 'intractable', you know there is a problem. A big problem. A hell of a big problem.” — Wilmot James Copy Share Image
The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care. — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
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