Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works. — Erin Heatherton Copy Share Image
The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts.… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
“Magic is doing something the other guy can’t do. We haven’t learned how to do it yet, so it’s magic. When we… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of… — Pierre Bosquet Copy Share Image
Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic… — Arvid Carlsson Copy Share Image
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“The use of method as the criterion of science abolishes theoretical relevance. As a consequence, all propositions concerning facts will be promoted… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“The denier that ID [intelligent design] is science faces the following dilemma. Either he admits that the intervention of such a designer… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness. — John Vane Copy Share Image
I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele Copy Share Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“Science’ (vignan) is always principled and it brings an end to all the misery. ‘Science’ is the only solution for it, but… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why is metal a conductor of electricity, and wood is not, but… — Gza Copy Share Image
[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Fields make huge progress when they move from stories (e.g Icarus) and authority (e.g 'witch doctor') to evidence/experiment (e.g physics, wind tunnels)… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“You know what’s wrong with scientific power?” Malcolm said. “It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“She is, nevertheless, true to those who obey her rules. Has not science proved that she is truthful? Has not art found… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image