Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical… — David Watson Copy Share Image
“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Some of my scientific friends and colleagues confess that they cannot for the life of them see why I don't abandon ship… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more… — Reginald Punnett Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is different from science and from mathematics. Unlike science it doesn't rely on experiments or observation, but only on thought. And… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the… — Arthur Koestler 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
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“These and similar examples are easy enough to uncover, and they make two crucial points: first, good science does not require experiments,… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Today, scientists and doctors find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by vast armies of individuals who feel entitled to pass judgment on matters… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility.… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form.… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
While 15-year-olds in China blitz their peers in the West in math, reading and science, we are warping the minds of our… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“It is possible that those strange sentient beings of the far-future cold universe will find contemplating a warm universe such as ours… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The Joker is the kind of guy who will come up with a plan to kidnap a scientist and have them create… — Shamus Young Copy Share Image
“The Secoya are trapped between the devastating effects of the colonization frontier and their rich traditional past, which is proving to be… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“ Willard Gibbs is the type of the imagination at work in the world. His story is that of an opening up… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
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“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena… — Robert Lowie Copy Share Image
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
![“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound…” quote by Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/342/richard-rhodes-18655_belief_chemist-michael-polanyi-found-one-other_2531620.jpg)
![“If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/fd0/richard-p-feynman-495_behave_if-i-say-electrons-behave-like-particles_1495136.png)
