“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its… — Barbora Jiřincová Copy Share Image
It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“What capacity could have renovated your brain, endowing you with new, specialised skills as well as inducing specific codnitive deficits? This exotic… — Joseph Henrich Copy Share Image
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of… — Finn Aaserud Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. I like Asimov's… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“…if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot… — K. J. Parker Copy Share Image
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Science has abolished distance, and we all live in one cave now, our little shrunken globe on which there is a place… — Albert Szent-gyorgyi Copy Share Image
“Science in its attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, Has discovered the ultimate reality that we are all One.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
“Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express… — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing. — George Polya Copy Share Image
I think working at BuzzFeed Video specifically kind of taught me about, like, the science of relatability, where - you know, those… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
I learned a lot in my last year at Livingston and even more since coming to Leeds, as a player and on… — Robert Snodgrass Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image