Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“Crossover' is a word scientists use to describe dolphins' soaring over seas, their traveling so free and fast, so high-spirited and almost… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
“What science offers for explaining the feelings we experience when believing in God or falling in love is complementary, not conflicting; additive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
“Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as… — Evelyn Fox Keller Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Suppose that there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other… — Hideki Yukawa Copy Share Image
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious… — William James Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
In the year of chan yan..., Jupiter was in [the Zodiacal Division of] Zi, it rose in the morning and went under… — Gan De Copy Share Image
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“But it turned out that this “unlearning” was not as complete as the scientists first thought. When they severed the neural connections… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Computer science has some of the most colorful language of any field. In what other field can you walk into a sterile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image