There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm an astrobiologist, and I come from a planetary science background, so in a very broad sense, I study the evolution of… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“It was perhaps inevitable that a reverence for all things ‘scientific’ should be accompanied by some scorn for ‘natural’ processes.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.” — Dan Riskin Copy Share Image
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
“Data science takes a natural and intuitive human process—spotting patterns and making sense of them—and injects it with steroids” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Life isn't just like roller-coasters but it's also like painting. Painting needs lots of focus and so does our life. If you… — Jana KhairAllah Copy Share Image
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life—this our mother has told… — Irène Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie]… — Irene Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being. — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.” — Nader Ibrahim Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
“Rash decisions will more often than not, result in the demise of chances you could have had with a situation for a… — Abhilash 'Nox' Baruah Copy Share Image
Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Why is it easier for some people to believe their ancestors were a clump of mud and a cannibalized body part, than… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image