“One of the more useful things I learned as a midshipman at Maine Maritime Academy were the names of the seven masts… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. … This double service assures to… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre Copy Share Image
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the weapon which enables us to join with our Lord on the offensive in defeating the spiritual hosts of… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Some thirty miles east of the statue, with much less fanfare, another monument was nearing completion. At Cold Spring Harbor on Long… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
“It requires an act of extreme arrogance to think that we can - through God or science - learn even the most… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I'd love is to have another Lyndon Johnson… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the foundations of law, or mathematics, or science, or art, or child rearing,… [the] issues constitute a polarity extending from the… — Silvan Tomkins Copy Share Image
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“The researchers speculated that men in traditional marriages are not overtly hostile toward women but instead are “benevolent sexists”—holding positive yet outdated… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotions which stand at the cradle of true art… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective… — Zack Love Copy Share Image