Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“And are we not guilty of offensive disparagement in calling chess a game? Is it not also a science and an art,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The… — William James Copy Share Image
FBI laboratory scientists said Sunday they have determined that the anthrax mailed to Senate offices last fall was fresh. They say it's… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact.… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
“Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet… — Alfred Wegener Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
The kind of influence you want is a much deeper influence. It's like empowerment. Things are like this, but what if they… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the… — Chien-Shiung Wu Copy Share Image
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be… — Samson Raphael Hirsch Copy Share Image
We climate researchers can only offer possible scenarios. In other words, things could end up being completely different. But there are undoubtedly… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“In the field of medicine, Galen, the Alexandrian scientist, propounded a view that is still around, nowadays called 'alternative medicine.'It was taught… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
Synthesis..., perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the condition and power… — Robert Burns Woodward Copy Share Image
“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“As both Herschel and Whewell would remark in their writings on science, the scientific process is inevitably a social one. Discoveries are… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
“Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
“Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but feel at this moment… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
