The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated. — Vannoccio Biringuccio Copy Share Image
It is very unlikely that Uganda will face a chaotic scenario similar to that in Syria or other places. Incidentally, doctors, scientists,… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important. — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“What would you do if I told you that corporations and corporate controlled governments invest heavily in corrupted science?” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Through all my later literary life I have sought to make it plain, as the result of antecedent years spent in occult… — xc9liphas Lxe9vi Copy Share Image
I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their… — Kathleen Madigan Copy Share Image
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Among all researchers who have worked in the African field, I consider myself one of the most fortunate because of the privilege… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
“If we allow the practice of restoration to become the exclusive domain of science, we will have lost its greatest promise, which… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain… — Sandra Lerner Copy Share Image
The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is… — Chien-Shiung Wu Copy Share Image
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The Metaphoton is a web of energy fields or complexes - having three hierarchical complexes called the light complex, mind complex and… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
“Scientists have discovered that the more we resist temptation, think deeply, or focus intensely, the better we become at doing” — Brad Stulberg Copy Share Image
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ... — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image