I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics. — Eric Baum Copy Share Image
“intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science’s excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“With your brain veritably defined by its dynamic neuroplasticity, the cage that holds you back is an illusion. Your brain potential is… — Jennifer Fraser Copy Share Image
Of necessity, a scientist typically studies one incredibly tiny sliver of some biological system, totally ensconced within one discipline, because even figuring… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
'The Lost Symbol' has much to impart about the mind-body problem as filtered through the work of Peter's younger sister Katherine, who… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me:… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When Children of Dune came out in hardback in 1976, it was an instant best seller. True to the prediction of David… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, The learned hold, are animals; So horses they affirm to be Mere engines made by… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the… — Eric Mazur Copy Share Image
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science.”4” — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
“For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“when people debate faith vs. science they’ve already missed the point. Faith is about embracing truth wherever it’s found, and that of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
I studied what the Germans call the Naturwissenschaften, the natural sciences. Everything from biology to geology. How the clouds are formed, how… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Scientific progress isn’t a parade of miraculously wrong theories—it’s an optimistic snowball, gathering the structure of reality as it rolls.” — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.” — Terrance Dicks Copy Share Image
One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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