We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my… — Lisa Su Copy Share Image
Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.' — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
“And if the world does not in all respects correspond to our wishes, is this the fault of science, or of those… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“But I—forgive me. I have to know." Nicholas swallowed hard. It was humiliating. But he was a scientist, trained to observe and… — T. Baggins Copy Share Image
“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
“Physicians from all over the world came not only to work for the Institute and to attend lectures there, but also to… — Charlotte Wolff, M.D Copy Share Image
“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — William R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Emeritus John Farrington said, "Sometimes God's creation does not yield to scientific research without great effort and our results are not always… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of… — James Balog Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental scientific discoveries of the dog-human relationship is that when a dog looks into his master's eyes, you have… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
My body shape has transformed as sports science research has developed. It used to be thought that footballers needed to be big… — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
[I attach] little importance to physical size. I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“All these observations fascinate us, and fill us with an intense desire to know more about the nature of these phenomena.” — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.” — José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero Copy Share Image
I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science. — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
“When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Substantially advanced spirituality is indistinguishable from science, and substantially advanced science is indistinguishable from spirituality.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image