I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up… — Loyd Auerbach Copy Share Image
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it.… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
The 21st century has more potential than perhaps any other in our brief evolutionary history. We stand on the cusp of computing,… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
“Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will… — Herbert York Copy Share Image
“There is a curious idea among unscientific men that in scientific writing there is a common plateau of perfectionism. Nothing could be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
“In a wartime survey conducted by a team of food-habits researchers, only 14 percent of the students at a women’s college said… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“The social sciences are obsessed by epistemological questioning in a way that no science, no real science is. You never have a… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules,… — George Wald Copy Share Image
We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral,—immoral from the scientific point of view.’ ‘Why?’… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are… — John Jacob Abel Copy Share Image
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces...… — Max von Laue Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted that the West has reached a level of scientific mastery and outstanding specialisation. In its points of reference,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft Copy Share Image
“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Just as there are those who accept every UFO report at face value, there are also those who dismiss the idea of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image