“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
If we rush too quickly to be scientific, to begin our experiment or catch our criminal as soon as possible, we risk… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“I stoped reading science fiction once I saw that the UFO was real. It became science fact that just hasn't been proven… — Mike Bird Copy Share Image
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are… — John Jacob Abel Copy Share Image
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will… — Herbert York Copy Share Image
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it.… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
The 21st century has more potential than perhaps any other in our brief evolutionary history. We stand on the cusp of computing,… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
“Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
“the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be the smallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By letting the IoT devices into our everyday life, it is not like we entered the zoo, but we released the animals… — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The scientists found that the admission of doubt provoked by the interrogative question created a sense of purpose, challenge and meaning.” — Richard Newton Copy Share Image
“Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off. Note : Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a… — Keahu Kahuanui Copy Share Image
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“…sometimes you need to be imaginative about what kinds of research you do, compromise and be driven by the questions that need… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image