I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
“Free will allows infinite numbers of human stories to be written in which a personal you is the main character. The sciences,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe today might be… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“No one, from pontiffs to professors, has a monopoly on the truth. In the end, we are all just travelers--not scientists or… — David Darling Copy Share Image
“Religion is based primarily upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly as the wish to feel that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life… — Stephen Law Copy Share Image
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy.… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image
Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests… — Morton Ann Gernsbacher Copy Share Image
The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking.… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science and in the future, so… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
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We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial,… — George Ellery Hale Copy Share Image
My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
“When today’s brain scientists talk Asperger’s, there’s no mention of damage—just difference. Neurologists have not identified anything that’s missing or ruined in… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Like ending the life of a czar in their native Russia, Goldman and Berkman were convinced that Frick’s death would be a… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“According to Kant, the motto of this new era, which came to be known as the Enlightenment, was “Dare to know!”—Sapere aude!… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is broad scientific consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation… — Pamela Ronald Copy Share Image
An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood,… — Otto Robert Frisch Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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