Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.” — Arthur R Marshall Copy Share Image
“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair… — Aretaeus of Cappadocia Copy Share Image
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Let people doubt your sanity. Let them think you’re nuts. Be the mad scientist, the wise fool, the adventure addict who makes… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“He felt a psychosomatic rush of emptiness before he spoke. “Since we are getting to the real point, I am not stupid… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean “ecological” in the same sense as the word is used… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist:… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Is it an accident that astronomy is the oldest science and psychology is the youngest? To some people, exploring the external universe… — David Myers Copy Share Image
I do not know what will be to find the God Particle, but scientists should at least find something to God, so… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
“If I may paraphrase Hobbes 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“When I thought of archives-documents stored and studied-I though of poets, writers, politicians, scientists. But why shouldn't the archives of the eaters… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message.… — Johnny Ball Copy Share Image
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“Researchers looked at 15 states that had experienced significant tree loss due to the beetle infestation and concluded the borer was linked… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of… — Jack White Copy Share Image