“It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are… — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“The usual consolations of life, friendship and sex included, appealed to Newton hardly at all. Art, literature, and music had scarcely more… — Edward Dolnick Copy Share Image
“One of the first unanswerable questions I asked was when I was eight years old. Some cousins of mine always said a… — Madison Arnold Copy Share Image
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to think that data science is just a process of adding up a bunch of data and… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human,… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“ Balard did not discover bromine, rather bromine discovered Balard . { Comment on Antoine Jérôme Balard , discoverer of bromine .}” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception. — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I am proudly pro-life and believe that science is proving those who believe in the sanctity of life right every day. A… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image