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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“The spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“My final slide quoted the words of biologist Louis Agassiz: ‘Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
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Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She… — Proclus Copy Share Image
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
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Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability.… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand… — Thomas Alva Edison Copy Share Image
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HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, “the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves,” or “the Sun moves and the Earth is…” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/153/albert-einstein-33_science_the-struggle-so-violent-in-the-early-day_1050746.jpg)
![“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?” quote by Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/223/seth-shostak-2047_aliens_o-ne-might-ask-why-in-a-galaxy-of-a-few_2866062.png)
![“The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/854/anonymous-1_answers_the-most-spectacular-thing-about-johnny_2032971.jpg)
