The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all… — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
“One way in which a recurrence of life can occur is in the event that the cycle of the big bang and… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just… — Frank Daniels III Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The effect of a warming planet on our health is “a threat that’s been completely neglected, marginalized, and ignored by the global… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“science fiction is something that could happen—but usually you wouldn’t want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn’t happen—though often you only… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be… — Plato Copy Share Image
So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
When the other girls had physical or practical classes like PE, drama or science, I would spend the lessons in the library,… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more… — Nils John Nilsson Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on… — Hideki Yukawa Copy Share Image
Well, regarding actors, my idol is Catherine Deneuve, but not in relation to my work, I'm just a fan. As far as… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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