I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know,… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“All science is a two-edged sword. It is pure only in the mind, at conception, as an idea, an equation, or just… — David Ambrose Copy Share Image
Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Some could say it is the external world which has molded our thinking-that is, the operation of the human brain-into what is… — Stanislaw M. Ulam Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
“Every religion, ideology and creed has its shadow, and no matter which creed you follow you should acknowledge your shadow and avoid… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations. — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“The next Freud will be a data scientist. The next Marx will be a data scientist. The next Salk might very well… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
“Scientists are like children: They always want to know everything, they all ask too many questions, and they never follow orders to… — Sylvain Neuvel Copy Share Image
