modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“There is no force in the life of ancient man, the influence of which so pervades all his activities as does that… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You can't live your life based on "what if" or "what might have been". Unless you're a Science Fiction Author, in which… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
“It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character." "I don't even know what that is!" "Because your… — Girl vs Monster Copy Share Image
As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
“As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Astronauts leave trash on the moon. There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent… — John H. Lienhard Copy Share Image
That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have a science YouTube channel where I will sometimes use my engineering skills to build things such as the world's largest… — Mark Rober Copy Share Image
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science -- it's a lot more fun, and no more likely… — Lord Rees Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.” — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
