“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly… — Scott Mandia Copy Share Image
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as… — David Gross Copy Share Image
“Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed: A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
I'm a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue… — David Deming Copy Share Image
“Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and… — Michael Crimmins Copy Share Image
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The most important rule when assessing abductive arguments is to consider alternative explanations. When we are presented with an explanation that sounds… — Michael E Emmering Copy Share Image
Every moment in your life is unique. You will never have two alike... Never. This is the science of living: When you… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a… — Anis Shivani Copy Share Image
Scientists speak a certain language. Now there are regular extreme weather reports on the news. Hurricane Katrina was a huge connect-the-dot moment… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science… — David Gross Copy Share Image
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance." — Gan De Copy Share Image
I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
“About these scientists,” Truman said, “we need men with great intellects, need their ideas. But we need to balance them with other… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much.… — Corey Flintoff Copy Share Image
Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy,… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her… — Ellen Klages Copy Share Image
As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected. — Edward Griffith Begle Copy Share Image
“We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image