A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
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Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
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HIV/AIDS from converted from a lethal disease into a chronic disease because basic scientists' fundamental research was done that illuminated aspects of… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
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“I have a deep thought for you. Science fiction is just beginning to catch up with the Old Testament. See artificial nitrates… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Some scientists for BP said this didn't have nothing to do with the oil, that sometimes this is what happens to animals:… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy,… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
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Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity,… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.]… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
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If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
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