Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world. — David Lee Copy Share Image
How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket? — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer. — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Governance as strategy . For some researchers, the central purpose of governance is strategic. It is a mechanism for ensuring that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers… — James A. Secord Copy Share Image
The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“Can you sleep-deprive your way out of a depressed episode? Some researchers think that it may be possible. Using a technique called… — Candida Fink Copy Share Image
There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
![“[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.” quote by Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/980/loren-eiseley-3848_air_on-common-water-its-substance-reaches-ev_441639.png)
