Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“In the discovery of secret things, and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule.… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations,… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was 9. I did smaller parts here and there as a kid, and then as I grew… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either, just generally I think as conservatives we… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“underneath the report about a shortage of scientists was another which said that a professor of acoustics at Salford University has proved… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“BYSTANDER EFFECT: Phenomenon documented by social scientists in which people are less likely to help someone in distress when there are others… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“You wanna know what’s happening to New York?” he asked. “I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without… — Alfred Cobban Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image