Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing,… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean… — Jonathan Schooler Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world was,” she continued hesitatingly, “that people were still superstitious instead of scientific. He said if everybody would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows.… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Americans broadly consent to funding clinical research because they believe in the promise of medical research. But people support scientific work only… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact… — Ernest Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian… — Thomas Dwight Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“I was employed for many years as a senior research scientist developing naval underwater weapon systems at the Technical Research and Development… — Dr. Takaaki Musha Copy Share Image
It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“When you do good, let it be good in line with nature. Don't latch onto the thought that you're good. If you… — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t just tell an octillion atoms to drop whatever they were doing, rearrange themselves into a completely new configuration and do… — Jester Bobbity Copy Share Image
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Creationists hold to an Ice Age that was triggered by the Flood. The Flood occurred about 2348 b.c., which is about 4,300… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I… — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
“Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ...… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I mean that you and I know that in this universe, God is a hack," he said. "He's a writer on an… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival… — David Helvarg Copy Share Image
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling… — George Will Copy Share Image
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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