“In the field of medicine, Galen, the Alexandrian scientist, propounded a view that is still around, nowadays called 'alternative medicine.'It was taught… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We climate researchers can only offer possible scenarios. In other words, things could end up being completely different. But there are undoubtedly… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be… — Samson Raphael Hirsch Copy Share Image
I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
“Proponents of the "we're all one race," swill took another hit recently when scientists revealed that bananas share about 50% of the… — H. Millard Copy Share Image
“For those who are not familiar with 'the Saturnian configuration', the theory, bizarre in the extreme, can be reduced to its simplest… — Dwardu Cardona Copy Share Image
Every time I write an article pointing out there is no scientific consensus on the extent of man-made - as opposed to… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The revolution of science that Newton single-handedly achieved in Principia was primarily that the laws of motion and gravity, and the nature… — David Flynn Copy Share Image
“If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that means that… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and technology; rather, they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In fact, certainty exists in very different modes. The kind of certainty afforded by a verification that has passed through doubt is… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“What are we talking about again?” he asks. I say science at the same time that he says love, and we both… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“How can we be good and kind to one another? Only if we grasp via science or spirituality that everything is innately… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess… — Ferdinand de Lesseps Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if… — Gustav Nossal Copy Share Image
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“The belief that science proceeds from observation to theory is still so widely and so firmly held that my denial of it… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image