“Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science,… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“In that context, I find theistic evolution, or BioLogos, to be by far the most scientifically consistent and spiritually satisfying of the… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“The inability of Darwinian psychology to account for human reasoning is devastating to its pretensions to be a science. The prestige of… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“The tradition of Islamic science of course gradually weakened but it did not decay as rapidly as some people have claimed in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“What do we really want from religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort? Do we want reassuring fables or an understanding of our actual circumstances?… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“He didn't even bother trying to justify himself to his internal medical ethical police -- he was guilty, pure and simple, of… — shukyou Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our… — Harlow Shapley Copy Share Image
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“...I see fetal sciences in you, mummified poems, and bones of my romantic secrets and old innocence. Shall I hang you on… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“I do not often get involved in litigation, largely because it is often simply impossible to conclude with scientific certainty what caused… — Mark Eberhart Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that we have to remember is that Egypt ancient history is so vast, and there are… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Science is getting knocked on all sides these days, not only from religious fundamentalists, but from all kinds of people who perceive… — Margaret McGee Copy Share Image
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
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