The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe,… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
“I am certain that Eric will get the job. His career path is very straight, like that of an arrow to its… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed the freedom they gave me—to write about almost any damned thing that came into my mind, whether it was crime,… — Norbert Davis Copy Share Image
Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“I have a problem,’ said Nikolai Nikolaivitch Asterinov, getting to his feet. ‘I have a problem, that I wish to share with… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I'm a lifelong exerciser, and also an academic with interest in, and access to, research, so I tend to read the research… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, you don’t need to change who you are as a person to make change last. You just need to understand the… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area -… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
To say we evovled from apes is an argumentative phase/I don't have time for theories or a broad thought plan/Science can't document… — C-DASH Copy Share Image
Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize… — Ava Helen Pauling Copy Share Image
“Pain and pleasure will keep coming; that is all scientific circumstantial evidence. Pain and pleasure are effective (effects of past causes). In… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going to wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of… — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false. — John Ziman Copy Share Image
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
