But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic." From Tribe of the Teddy… — J. Joseph Wright Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked… — John Muir Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around.… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly,… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough… — Henry Crew Copy Share Image
“Very soon the heavens presented an extraordinary appearance, for all the stars directly behind me were now deep red, while those directly… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb? — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise. — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In Akram (the stepless scientific path to moksh), we do not look at anyone’s worthiness at all. If we were to look… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world;… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything! — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter Parker is into science.… — Josh Keaton Copy Share Image
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Yes, Charles Yu names his main character after himself. That main character, in fact, is both time-machine repairman and author of a… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image