We all admire great accomplishments in the sciences, arts, and humanities - but we rarely acknowledge how much we achieve in the… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis. — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“Once established, commercial interests in geoengineering will no doubt defend the need to keep on keeping on, using whatever means available from… — David Keith Copy Share Image
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are seven things that will destroy us, Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Religion without sacrifice, Politics without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even in his greatest dedication to science he had never managed to forget that people's goodness and beauty come from what they… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
“when scientific research focuses on a potential hazard that may affect the population at large, researchers themselves, regulatory agencies, advocacy groups, and… — Geoffrey C Kabat Copy Share Image
Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its… — Carl Ludwig Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“History provides a compelling argument that every scientist who tinkers around with unstoppable shit needs a reliable flamethrower.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
If you grow up on the good side of the tracks, you're going to belong to something over there. If you grow… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“Social scientists are not universally liked or appreciated, but we are still marginally more acceptable than alcoholics and escaped lunatics.” — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new… — George Porter Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself --… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large. — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
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