Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Science is the slow revelation of God's blueprint." (Bioshock Infinite, "God's Blueprint," Level: Fink Manufacturing, Date: April the 19th, 1908)” — Hattie Gerst Copy Share Image
“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and… — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
My two older brothers are both molecular biologists and neuroscientists, and I feel like representing them accurately is never done in movies,… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
In addition to politics, I usually write about super heroes, science fiction and afro-futurism, so a collection of blaxploitation movies from the… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you… — Tamar Braxton Copy Share Image
“the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center’s life, thousands of students passed” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought… — Henry Fonda Copy Share Image
“Take three grains of sand and put them in the middle of a vast cathedral. Now the cathedral is as full with… — Vedang Sati Copy Share Image
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“One could inflict abuses on ethnic and other minorities in the name of science and for the good of society and get… — David Lagercrantz Copy Share Image
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image