As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. — William Stewart Halsted Copy Share Image
It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes.… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes,… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In my teaching and consulting practice, I encourage people to learn to experiment with confidence and to see themselves as scientists in… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I… — Gary Coleman Copy Share Image
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
It's fashionable to think that the conservative parties in America are the science deniers. You certainly wouldn't have trouble supporting that claim.… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively… — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to maybe think a little less about the science of building walls and that waste of time and energy and… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals,… — C.K. Kelly Martin Copy Share Image
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account… — David Stras Copy Share Image
Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
