“Researchers looked at 15 states that had experienced significant tree loss due to the beetle infestation and concluded the borer was linked… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of… — Jack White Copy Share Image
That kind of approach, I believe, will not grow our economy, because the only way to pay for it without either burdening… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You only think about things when you see people doing it. Most girls know now they can be lawyers. They know that… — Judith Love Cohen Copy Share Image
The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Man’s morality was not advancing as fast as man’s science. Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed. We… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“If everyone can do it, it's science. If only a few can, then it's witchcraft, or superstition, or whatever you like to… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. This is faith, not science. We… — John Gray Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. —… — Rachel Schutt Copy Share Image
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness… — George Iles Copy Share Image
“It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an… — Paul A. Lombardo Copy Share Image