If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Absolute can only exercise its potential and power in the infinite number of possibilities and universes or worlds it can transform into.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“A second point that caught my attention was that the very persons who insist upon keeping religion and science separate are eager… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that within science, you're dealing with properties of the real and physical world, and by using those… — Marc Quinn Copy Share Image
Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
“All the rules are encompassed within scientific circumstantial evidences. Even niyati (natural flow of progress of an embodied soul) is incorporated within… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of… — Jonathan Katz Copy Share Image
“The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Science offers us the possibility of understanding natural rhythms and events that must have seemed like the work of angry and unpredictable… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to… — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know? — Anohni Copy Share Image
The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“My parents’ room is an uncataloged planet, a night sky presence unknown to scientists but feared by the secret faithful who trade… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a 'waiting room', which it would be… — Gustav Meyrink Copy Share Image
“Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.” — Francis Perrin Copy Share Image
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.” — John Leslie Copy Share Image
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon… — John Smeaton Copy Share Image
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
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