Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn’t seen the last time she was a visitor… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft Copy Share Image
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“That, in a nutshell, is the scientific method: understand and frame the problem; observe; hypothesize (or imagine); test and deduce; and repeat.… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
No science is ever frightening to Christians. Religious people don't need the science to come out any particular way on IQ or… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction… — Osborne Reynolds Copy Share Image
The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
“The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Do you know how many great writers, musicians, artists, scientists, inventors, theologians, and statesmen have died poor? All of them! You can't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that… — Bengt I. Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts. The first is that our perceptions being every thing for… — Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Chiropractic, which celebrated its centennial in 1995, is a curious mixture of science and pseudoscience, sense and nonsense. Much of it is… — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters -… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify,… — Joseph William Mellor Copy Share Image
I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice, which is unnecessary and destructive. More… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
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