“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. —Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of… — Robert Wachter Copy Share Image
“Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his… — Ian Weir Copy Share Image
“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean." "I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
“Another of Mack’s patients says that the aliens have been taking eggs from her since she was sexually mature, and that her… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years.… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my… — Hans Cloos Copy Share Image
Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Programs like I-Corps get university and other federally-funded research translated more quickly into new products and new companies, creating American jobs and… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
“These motions were such as to satisfy me, after frequently repeated observation, that they arose neither from currents in the fluid, nor… — Robert Brown Copy Share Image
The agriculture ministry has to see that their good research percolates down to the fields through the state agricultural departments and the… — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an experimental physicist and was attracted to the idea of using continuing advances in technology to carry… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Scientists can never be sure about the correctness of their theories. Every theory is just as good as the things it manages… — Sabelo Lan Mashabela Copy Share Image
One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos Copy Share Image
And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything.… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Everyone should have a life coach. We learn history, maths, and science at school, but we don't have the tools to understand… — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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