The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
The harsh truth is that Trump is a living co-morbidity, he's over 70, out of shape, eats terribly and doesn't believe in… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
“Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
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Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Anyway, so you take your space and hook it into the spaces of others, and it becomes this massive network of hooked… — Zubin J. Shroff Copy Share Image
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Y'know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar's eyebrow. But whenit comes to… — Martin Berkeley Copy Share Image
It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science… — Lincoln Barnett Copy Share Image
“Henri Poincaré, a celebrated French mathematician and philosopher of science, said, “Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless combinations and in… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Copy Share Image
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault Copy Share Image
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all… — Joseph Lovering Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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“As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the… — M.-L. von Franz Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
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![“The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving…” quote by Leon Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e85/leon-foucault-85526_academy_the-observations-so-numerous-and-so-impo_870149.png)
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