“The lack of definitive answers to questions discussed in this book also reflects the fact that science is an ongoing process in… — Stephen H. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Helmholtz is not a philosopher in the exclusive sense, as Kant, Hegel, Mansel are philosophers, but one who prosecutes physics and physiology,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Dr. Blockhead's mocking face was solemn for once. 'Modern science is wiping out deviant strains of the human form,' he said. 'In… — Les Martin Copy Share Image
“A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
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“Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“God, or to put it better, our idea of God, is a concept before anything else. The way God had been (mainly)… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
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Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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“Using a 500,000 snip chip, researchers at Stanford University have found a strong correspondence between the genetics and geographical origins of Europeans.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Some people argue that economics is an exception to this general story. Economics, they say, provides a much more analytically precise and… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
“A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize… — Nicolas Lemery Copy Share Image
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Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
I am grateful to my colleagues at Brandeis and to the unusual environment here that allows researchers to explore without boundaries while… — Michael Rosbash Copy Share Image
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