“I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
“The idea that scientific method is the only method of discovering the truth has a lot to be said for it, if… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You can't live your life based on "what if" or "what might have been". Unless you're a Science Fiction Author, in which… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
“I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.” — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
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