Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so… — Dileesh Pothan Copy Share Image
We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
“Knock, knock… Who’s there?… Little endorphin… Little endorphin who?… Little endorphin Annie.” And then the endorphins laugh, and then you laugh. See?… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“What Trixie wanted, most of all, what she couldn't have - to go back to being the kind of girl who worried… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those… — David Lee Copy Share Image
Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
“Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“He realized the lesson was that science can take medicine only so far. Then it is helped tremendously if there is faith… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I remember starting 'Game of Thrones,' everyone said 'you have to watch it,' but I thought 'it's science fiction, it's not real,… — Virgil van Dijk Copy Share Image
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“so Enlightenment philosophers developed a new form of theism, based entirely on reason and Newtonian science, which they called Deism.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
