Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“ His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’m acknowledging that my ten-year-old self—the four-square champion who also won the slingshot contest on our street—has saved my butt at least… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We, hijras, are not hypocrites. We live our sexuality openly, being truthful to our souls and our bodies. Science and doctors assigned… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Whatever we make, or invent, or build, is with us forever; we cannot throw it away. The methan and carbon diocide we… — Natalie Bennett Copy Share Image
“Are [the arts and the sciences] really as distinct as we seem to assume? [...] Most universities will have distinct faculties of… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
Academically, I think things kicked off pretty late for me. I was kind of one of those kids who was in half… — Michael Seibel Copy Share Image
“Many of the most obvious conflicts between science and religion involve timing issues—the dating of events in Earth’s history. Bible chronologies typically… — David Barker Copy Share Image
“Scientists believe that sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still in existence. Nature built them as perfect predators. Perfect… — K.A. Applegate Copy Share Image
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“I shall never do that,' I answered; 'you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
From working on heavily researched films such as 'Four Lions' and 'In the Loop,' I knew that research in itself is nothing… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this… — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
“An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first… — Luis Marques Copy Share Image
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television,… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, I headed to graduate school at the University of Utah and joined the pioneering program in computer graphics… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has… — Tim Flannery Copy Share Image
The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Let's face it. How often do you see an Asian face in films and television? They are practically invisible. Now and then,… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image