My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire,… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Mutation load has been proposed as a likely explanation for the persistence of common, heritable, and harmfulmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia.” — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers… — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
As governor, I am committed to creating workforce development opportunities, expanding our computer science opportunities for Virginia's students, and reestablishing high expectations… — Glenn Youngkin Copy Share Image
My dad wanted me to be a scientist and I was set to study science A-levels. But after the first term I… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“Joseph Andreas Epp. Epp told us that German scientists had secret UFOs’ facilities in Germany and Poland. He particularly mentioned the UFOs’… — Maximillien de Lafayette Copy Share Image
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them,… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown… — William Bayliss Copy Share Image
“It takes a kind of arrogance to think everything in the world can be measured and weighed with our scientific instruments.” — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds. — William Herschel Copy Share Image
“The lack of time and space in our sense of these concepts does not mean that nothing exists beyond the spacetime continuum.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research. — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We are very concerned all the time with figuring out new technologies and advances in science, but really [while] our future is… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
“Each of us finds his way, his place; we rattle around the universe until everything fits; this is life; this is science,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“...it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths that distinguishes us from the mere animals and gives us Reason and the… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do… — John Gray Copy Share Image
In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One must take things lightly, after all, we are entertainers and acting isn't rocket science. The trick is, not to take criticism… — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and… — James Black Copy Share Image
Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image