I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest… — George Polya Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light.… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right.… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. — Joanna Lumley 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
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
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
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“If our sides were unequal our angles might be unequal. Instead of its being sufficient to feel, or estimate by sight, a… — Edwin Abbott Copy Share Image
Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's,… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It is a… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Science is insulating man from life - separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
“I truly believe that life isn’t only about science and statistics. It is about humanity, belief and energy. Something much grander than… — Beverley Golden Copy Share Image
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences. — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
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