“Safe and effective” should not just be a slogan to promote vaccines. These words should represent truth after scientific proof has been… — Stephen Heartland Copy Share Image
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Scientists say that 2 degrees is the furthest we can push the planet before it turns on us. Much like a sorority… — Desi Lydic Copy Share Image
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains,… — Robert Krulwich Copy Share Image
“A small bubble of air remained unabsorbed... if there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs… — Henry Cavendish Copy Share Image
The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Learn to read history, get all the knowledge you can, do not frown on the anecdote, but do not draw any causal… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I didn't have a huge amount of security when I was a scientist from one contract to another. You're always thinking, 'Am… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she -… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how many of the things needed for a basic biology lab are capable of blowing up, if you're willing to… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry to tell you that another Dani was found wandering around the time station in our building, confused and disoriented.” — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened.… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are to form a… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
“Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
“It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image