It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve… — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
“The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
“It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it… — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer… — Noel-Antoine Pluche Copy Share Image
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“You could say I lost my faith in science and progress You could say I lost my belief in the holy Church… — Sting Copy Share Image
I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including… — David Morse Copy Share Image
The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? It's the end of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
As a fellow science fiction author, Heinlein largely raised me, and I resent it when some folks lazily dismiss Heinlein as a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A 'serious' scientist in 1992 or 1993 had to admit the possibility that planets were really rare, that most stars might not… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me [on… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who… — Stanley B. Goldenberg Copy Share Image
“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he… — Deborah G. Felder Copy Share Image
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a… — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“In order to approximate dinosaurian physiology, the trio of scientists carried out the unenviable task of sticking thermometers in the cloacae of… — Brian Switek Copy Share Image