My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn't explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan. -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The impression is for the writer what experiment is for the scientist, with the difference that in the scientist the work of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew… — Andrew J. Feustel Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be… — George Iles Copy Share Image
“Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be… — Adam Miller Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate… The real story is… — Patrick Symmes Copy Share Image
“Miller believes, like many theists, that religion brings us beyond the bounds of materialism. (Ironically he insists on a material explanation [evolution]… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
“We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be… — Mohammed Ali Copy Share Image
Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and… — Clyde Kluckhohn Copy Share Image
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
It's funny, I hear people say I'm faking all this science stuff. That's the furthest thing from the truth. It's literally what… — Bryson DeChambeau Copy Share Image
New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it:… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“When I arrived there, looking like a mad scientist had tried to flay me open like a tiny Frankenstein, my mother freaked… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image