The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —address to the Society for Psychical… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
“Beth had been a middle school science teacher and Joni was a librarian and they both had collections of weird stuff they… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“We working scientists increasingly find ourselves living in a kind of Tower of Babel, where it’s harder and harder to stay abreast… — Peter Doherty Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“It is a type of science originally advocated 2,400 years ago by the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, who said, “There are, in… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw… — Ravi Gomatam Copy Share Image
“Growing up,” he said, “my favorite author was Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the… — Shannon Lucid Copy Share Image
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
It is a privilege to play the brilliant scientist, Phil Jones, whose own private world was so threatened from outside and whose… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
“That's the trouble with science. Always upending itself. Ruining perfect systems for the little inconvenience of them being wrong.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors. — Judith Faulkner Copy Share Image
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
“It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if… — William DeVries Copy Share Image
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I just feel like my audience is interested in anything that I do. Dare I say, even when I was making my… — Bretman Rock Copy Share Image
In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image