A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity — Craig Mello Copy Share Image
In today's information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth. — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
The goal of science and engineering is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Copy Share Image
“No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Some scientific specialists do not believe in parallel worlds; however many do endorse a multi-dimensinal multiverse with no planetary equivalents to Earth.” — S. Alan Schweitzer Copy Share Image
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better… — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
For God's sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend,… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention… — Democritus Copy Share Image
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Eat healthy. Work hard. Stay strong. Worry less. Dance more. Love often. Be happy...” — Sukhraj S. Dhillon Copy Share Image
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“States should invest in science so that the future can be calmly contemplated.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit. — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image