The future peopling of Mars is much more than a scientific endeavor. It is a step of historic and spiritual importance for… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“unpredictability of my profession with my brother recently, he told me about scientific studies where lab rats were rewarded with food pellets… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“If you believe you can change—if you make it a habit—the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees. But under… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
“She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn’t, she knew, terribly sophisticated of… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Unassuming in manner, genial and kindly in his intercourse with his fellow-men, never showing impatience or irritation, devoid of personal ambition of… — Henry Andrews Bumstead Copy Share Image
We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to complain about a lack of imagination in scientists when their failure is simply that they cannot make… — Milton A. Rothman Copy Share Image
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
“People with a scientific mindset are analytical, open-minded, flexible and have the capacity to answer questions. They are basically focused on what… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
But, if you read science journals or the inside of Snapple caps, you might already know that watching TV is the closest… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist,… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
“... the irregularities of the motion of Uranus...in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an… — John Couch Adams Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history,… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
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