Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“The Metal Horn Unicorns and their elemental friends are techno-magical.” — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities. — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Small nonlinearities were easy to disregard. People who conduct experiments learn quickly that they live in an imperfect world.” — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going to wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of… — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
“and when Mrs Thatcher came to the college for a scientific symposium Tyson was deputed to take her round the Common Room.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Tungsten, X-rays, and Coolidge form a trinity that has left an indelible impression upon our life and times. The key word in… — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
“What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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