“Henri Poincaré, a celebrated French mathematician and philosopher of science, said, “Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless combinations and in… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Copy Share Image
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all… — Joseph Lovering Copy Share Image
And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault Copy Share Image
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the… — M.-L. von Franz Copy Share Image
“So in the twentieth century, there’s a major current of American thought―in fact, it’s probably the dominant current among people who think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Researchers have found that whenever most systems —such as airports, freeways, and other such things —exceed about 90 percent capacity, efficiency drops… — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“As a rule, sexually selected traits tend to be more condition-dependent --and thus more vulnerable to dysfunctions-- than other phenotypes. This contributes… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Except for practices that incorporate design as the way they practice—for example, architecture and engineering—the art of design is not incorporated into… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics -… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very… — Michael Levitt Copy Share Image
“You know how, in court, they talk about the CSI effect? Like, everyone on the jury has watched so much CSI that… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has entries that tend to change rather often and is biased toward the religion of secularism. Even so,… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich… — Mario Molina Copy Share Image
You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
“In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
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