If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have… — John Keats Copy Share Image
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working… — Milo Aukerman Copy Share Image
“At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Whereas Einstein was not the James Joyce of scientists and James Joyce was not the Einstein of novelists who no one could… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“A general principle concerning the gender of bears has been established years ago by bear supervisor König from Bern, after over thirty… — Wolfgang Klein Copy Share Image
The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that… — Kirtley F. Mather Copy Share Image
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with… — Thomas Edward Thorpe Copy Share Image
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert Copy Share Image
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One Situated in a situation’ (Avasthit) is ‘causes’ and result of scientific circumstantial evidence (vyavasthit) is an ‘effect’. The energy of avasthit… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure, in time,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute,… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“For the early scientists, the image of God was not a dry doctrine to which they gave merely cognitive assent. Nor was… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who… — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I don't myself think much of science as a phase of human development. It has given us a lot of ingenious toys;… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Please understand something. God didn’t create evil in the world, but He did create free will, which allowed for the possibility of… — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided… — Lyman Spitzer Copy Share Image
There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image