We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps… — Kitty Ferguson Copy Share Image
The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no… — Ivar Giaever Copy Share Image
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
“God is not absolute, and Nothingness is not absolute. If we come from these positions (postulates), we confront the inability of language… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“Science works by experiments. It watches how things behave. Every scientific statement in the long run, however complicated it looks, really means… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“The report made a science fiction-like case that the president was within his constitutional rights to reinterpret congressional legislation to conform more… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“Once there was a boy,” said Jace. Clary interrupted immediately. “A Shadowhunter boy?” “Of course.” For a moment a bleak amusement colored… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“In every domain, from business and politics to science and art, the people who move the world forward with original ideas are… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“To consider Western science simply as a continuation of Islamic science is, therefore, to misunderstand completely both the epistemological foundations of the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to overstate the importance of understanding mirror neurons and their function. They may well be central to social learning,… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the… — Gordon L. Kane Copy Share Image
“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2)… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days)… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school,… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Religion has been the larger contributor to nationality. It can be shown historically that kindred languages have not been sufficient to hold… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows.… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Americans broadly consent to funding clinical research because they believe in the promise of medical research. But people support scientific work only… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
![“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no…” quote by Louis de Broglie](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3a4/louis-de-broglie-37016_aim_vulnerable-like-all-men-to-the-temptatio_2796335.png)
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