The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
I was always seeking truth from childhood. And I identified truth with many things, with science, with politics, with art, and I… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“If existance of something cannot be proved scientifically, it only means that science is not equipped to prove it right now.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With… — William K. Stevens Copy Share Image
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Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
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That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have a science YouTube channel where I will sometimes use my engineering skills to build things such as the world's largest… — Mark Rober Copy Share Image
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To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent… — John H. Lienhard Copy Share Image
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Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
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