Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.” — Michael E Emmering Copy Share Image
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the… — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
“On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into… — Arthur Fry Copy Share Image
“Why do you want a letter from me? Why don't you take the trouble to find out for yourselves what Christianity is?… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) { Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,'… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
Free from the shackles of the E.U. - and an automatic right of entry for their citizens, with or without work -… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money. — Tyrone Hayes Copy Share Image
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed;… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As a scientist, of course, we have to believe there is no supernatural. There are only natural entities in the universe. And… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
First you need to examine science then fall in love with it First you need to fall in love with Bible then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was diagnosed dyslexic, but I should point out I don't think it majorly impacted on me. I don't feel that I… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To Be Loner, You… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
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