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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say. — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest… — George Polya Copy Share Image
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
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HIV/AIDS from converted from a lethal disease into a chronic disease because basic scientists' fundamental research was done that illuminated aspects of… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
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There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100… — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right.… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light.… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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I think that the Apocalypse is going to be in this new way of thinking. Somewhere between now and 2020, there has… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
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When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses… — George Fownes Copy Share Image
D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
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