At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
“Researchers believe laughter may in fact be a release valve when we experience the discomfort and excitement of uncertainty, but without fear… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff,… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, “Delusion provides a certain,… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“We underestimate the power of science, and overestimate the power of personal observation. A peer-reviewed, journal-published, replicated report is worth far more… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Consider Rutherford playing his thoroughly unlikely hunch about alpha backscattering, Heisenberg remembering an obscure remark of Einstein’s and concluding that nature only… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
“The diet heart hypothesis that suggests that a high intake of fat or cholesterol causes heart disease has been repeatedly shown to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A scientist has a frog and he says, "Jump, frog." The frog jumps ten feet. The scientist writes down, FROG JUMPS 10… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science. — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight,… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
I was really interested in doing a really science fiction-based story because it's something I feel like I hadn't done yet. — Lindsey Morgan Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we… — Eratosthenes Copy Share Image
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic. — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image