Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, as defined by Fichte, is the "science of sciences." Its aim was to solve the problems of the world. In the… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
“The bold code of the transhumanist will rise. That's an inevitable, undeniable fact. It's embedded in the undemocratic nature of technology and… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless,… — Leslie Groves Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“And our resistance against changing our habits of thought is immense and unrelenting. If we try, briefly, we find it ass vexing… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We have all been given a gift with 'The Big Bang Theory,' a show that's not only based in the scientific community,… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“With the 'Knowledge' [Gnan] ‘we’ give, peace will prevail. But it won’t do without understanding this Vignan, the spiritual science. Will a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one… — Vannoccio Biringuccio Copy Share Image
Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“More generally, it is widely recognized that there is a crisis in the field of biomedicine, characterized by a “culture of hyper-competitiveness.”… — Geoffrey C Kabat Copy Share Image
There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image