The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages… — Reginald Aldworth Daly Copy Share Image
“It may not have occurred to you kids that sex is more than a fifteen-minute trip to the backseat of a car.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“State sponsored medicine and science can function as ideology, inspiring blind commitment, fanatical defensiveness and denial, particularly of outcomes inconsistent with the… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
“Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the… — Sheldon Rampton Copy Share Image
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube… — Frank M. Robinson Copy Share Image
“The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.” — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“website optimization, which is the art and science of enhancing the user experience of a website with the goal of converting users… — Richard Stokes Copy Share Image
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers. — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
