“When Jonas Salk, a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, found it and developed the first polio vaccine in 1952, he did… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know -… — Brian Schmidt Copy Share Image
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
“A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that science has… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance.… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“The cloning of human genes allowed scientists to manufacture proteins-and the synthesis of proteins opened the possibility of targeting the millions of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“E www ... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England,… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I agree that science is the best way of understanding the natural world, and therefore that we have reason to believe what… — T. M. Scanlon Copy Share Image
“If man is but a biological organism and biology itself may be reduced to a set of physical and chemical laws, it… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. ... What you know about computing other people will… — Alan J. Perlis Copy Share Image
“...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most innovation is not done by research institutes and national laboratories. It comes from manufacturing - from companies that want to extend… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“That which we never question is the concept itself. But what is a concept? Is it necessary to put the idea of… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws,… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“The Research Excellence Framework is starting to ask what sorts of curiosity our culture can afford, and that scares me even more… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We noted in Section II that an increasing reliance on textbooks or their equivalent was an invariable concomitant of the emergence of… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The left’s idea of “science” is that we should all be riding bicycles and using the Clivus Multrum composting latrines instead of… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time an academic scientist went to visit a Zen Master, famous for being very wise. After greeting the scholar,… — Jeffrey Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its own creation myth, its own cosmology. And in some respects every cosmology is true, even if I might… — Dennis J. McKenna Copy Share Image
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation &… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
