But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
“We walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot ( she said and proved that she… — Otto Robert Frisch Copy Share Image
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“After reading the salary, I've decided that I must refuse. The reason I have to refuse a salary like that is I… — Feynman Copy Share Image
There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis.… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is,… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained… — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
“These guys may not talk too much about relationships, but they sure do blush at telling moments, don’t they? Maybe that’s the… — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have unequivocally concluded that the very existence of science itself is the proving ground of (what we call) GOD, thus making… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We should all be proud of the many contributions Hellenes have made in our society, especially in the areas of science, medicine,… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must… — G. Tyler Miller Copy Share Image
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the… — Jon Elster Copy Share Image
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules. — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image