The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know? — Anohni Copy Share Image
The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to… — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
“My parents’ room is an uncataloged planet, a night sky presence unknown to scientists but feared by the secret faithful who trade… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working… — Milo Aukerman Copy Share Image
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“Whereas Einstein was not the James Joyce of scientists and James Joyce was not the Einstein of novelists who no one could… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“A general principle concerning the gender of bears has been established years ago by bear supervisor König from Bern, after over thirty… — Wolfgang Klein Copy Share Image
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with… — Thomas Edward Thorpe Copy Share Image
The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that… — Kirtley F. Mather Copy Share Image
“Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.” — Francis Perrin Copy Share Image
“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.” — John Leslie Copy Share Image
I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a 'waiting room', which it would be… — Gustav Meyrink Copy Share Image
“All the rules are encompassed within scientific circumstantial evidences. Even niyati (natural flow of progress of an embodied soul) is incorporated within… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of… — Jonathan Katz Copy Share Image
We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Science offers us the possibility of understanding natural rhythms and events that must have seemed like the work of angry and unpredictable… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that within science, you're dealing with properties of the real and physical world, and by using those… — Marc Quinn Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
“Absolute can only exercise its potential and power in the infinite number of possibilities and universes or worlds it can transform into.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
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