Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“My grandfather had given me Mr. Darwin's book to read. He had given me the possibility of a different kind of life.… — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My main interest is in the promotion of human values. From birth we have a sense of affection and some sense of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I‘ve always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive powers were the least important or least relevant… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be… — William James Copy Share Image
I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
“It happens thousands of times a day around the world, maybe millions, yet it is the culmination of human achievement, of human… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“A charge often levied against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. There's some truth to this indictment, if… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Commercial exhibitors will often have strategic goals that explain the competitive strengths and unique advantages of their current offer. Related but slightly… — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
“science makes progress not by proving its theories right-because that's impossible-but by eliminating an increasing number of wrong theories. Pseudoscience, however, does… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
“because no doctor or scientist of any sort, no one at all, really knows much of anything in the grand scheme of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The worldly [spiritual] science is methodic (kramic) in nature; one progresses “step by step”; one has to ascent one step at a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“We now live in the Esperantists’ dreamworld, but the universal language of natural science is English, a language that is the native… — Michael D. Gordin Copy Share Image
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“Well, of course one must have concentration. Courage. Self-control. That goes without saying. But more important than these, one must have... I… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“We've developed algorithms for orgasms, broken it down to a science, I spell out equations on the small of your back, your… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Some scientists have actually done this and guess what? They haven’t found a significant correlation between phases of the Moon and hospital… — Robert Carroll Copy Share Image
Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“When researchers looked at all the possible means of preventing infant and young child death they found that improving breastfeeding practices could… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image