“Rationalism is imperative in the pursuit of truth, whereas the pursuit of a harmonious global progress demands a human to be simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
“Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are situate within the circle of our… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt , it does not and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“For a scientist, who has placed his faith in the testability of the scientific method, and in his own intellectual ability to… — John L. Betcher Copy Share Image
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever so subtly toward each other made it… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“Scientists define perfectionism as the will to achieve high standards combined with excessive self-criticism. Perfectionists expect, well, perfection. Anything less won’t do.… — Andrea Petersen Copy Share Image
“I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The scientific revolution was part of a wider intellectual revolution, the Enlightenment, which also brought progress in other fields, especially moral and… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious… — Tom Verducci Copy Share Image
And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“What is vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidences) like? It is the energy of samashti (aggregated, universal) whereas these [living beings] are… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
“The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it's all… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We need to ask ourselves: What use is our scientific endeavor and innovation when they are inaccessible to the people who need… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“I believe in nature, in science, in jazz, in dancing. And I believe in people. In their resilience, in their goodness. This… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image