[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking. — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
“We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It was to Greece that the Romans first owed their knowledge of healing, and of art and science generally, but at no… — James Elliott Copy Share Image
I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity. — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against… — William James Copy Share Image
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“When we come to deal with an institution of His, we dare never expect to fathom or test it by our poor,… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Is any job safe? I was hoping to say 'journalist,' but researchers are already developing algorithms that can gather facts and write… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
“Another ship. It’s the best news I could ever have imagined. Who are they going to send? Who’s coming? I stare out… — Lauren James Copy Share Image
“Allison gave the reporters something more stirring to write about. “Scientist Drops A-Bomb: Blasts Army Shackles,” the Chicago Tribune reported about his… — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides… — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
“God created… light and dark, heaven and hell— science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created everything in… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“ Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska , a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must. — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists. — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
“To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image