It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“An atom is mostly made up of empty space. If you remove the empty space from every atom, the entire world's human… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
“computer scientists call validation: whereas verification asks “Did I build the system right?,” validation asks “Did I build the right system?” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines… — Robert Gibbs Copy Share Image
“One way of thinking about science is that it’s a check against the natural human tendency to see patterns that might not… — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Some scientists thrive on the conceptual; their minds can envision particles that the most powerful microscopes can’t show us; processes that can’t… — William M. Bass Copy Share Image
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our… — Arvid Carlsson Copy Share Image
“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.” — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on,… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's… — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton. (Answer given by a pupil to a question on atomic theory, as… — Henry Enfield Roscoe Copy Share Image
“The “principle of charity” and the “science of compassion” are both crucial to any attempt to understand discourse and ideas that initially… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
“We working scientists increasingly find ourselves living in a kind of Tower of Babel, where it’s harder and harder to stay abreast… — Peter Doherty Copy Share Image
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —address to the Society for Psychical… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image