“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.” — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
“Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.” — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“That's because you hate parties," said Trevor. I corrected him. "I hate parties with more than 16 people, remember? It's an exact… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
The president [of American research institute] can act as the CEO and make a firm decision about the long-term development of the… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
“Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—so the theory itself would determine the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are no a priori obstacles to the scientific knowledge of the mind, but the scientific knowledge of the mind is not… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.” My companion flushed up… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
“It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own.… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake'… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Throughout medical school, residency, specialties, and subspecialties some feel we have allowed the science to overshadow the art.” — Richard Colgan Copy Share Image