If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as evil in the world of science. There are only those who discover and are remembered, and… — S.C. Barrus Copy Share Image
You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain… — William James Copy Share Image
Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
“Science has proved there's nothing to the talk of ghosts and spirits, no proof anything like the soul exists. And to my… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
A paradigm shift is the best a scientist can hope for. Whenever I smell an opportunity like that, I go after it.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods -… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“The late Ralf Dahrendorf, an Anglo-German political scientist well placed to appreciate the scale of the changes he had seen in his… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus.… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“IF SCIENCE TEACHES ANYTHING, IT TEACHES US TO ACCEPT OUR FAILURES, AS WELL AS OUR SUCCESSES, WITH QUIET DIGNITY AND GRACE.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say. — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest… — George Polya Copy Share Image
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light.… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right.… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
How do I feel when I am invited to a congregation of scientists? I feel quite at home. When they break into… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with… — Arthur William Galston Copy Share Image
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are… — William James Copy Share Image
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'Frankenstein' is a timeless classic. As science advances, it becomes more relevant, not less. Its fantasy moves closer to fact, its horrors… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that… — Noga Alon Copy Share Image