Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met… — J. J. C. Smart Copy Share Image
I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“You begin to see the point? Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“To preserve our absolute categories or ideals at the expense of human lives offends equally against the principles of science and of… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that-at least in our scientific theories of behavior-we have failed to accept the simple fact that human relations… — Thomas Stephen Szasz Copy Share Image
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
“Some believers accuse skeptics of having nothing left but a dull, cold, scientific world. I am left with only art, music, literature,… — Lynne Kelly Copy Share Image
“[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about 'why' questions. When we ask, 'Why?' we usually mean 'How?' If we can… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“If parents start to fear that monsters may have been let loose in their children's bedrooms, it may be because their children… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — L. Harrison Matthews Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“Biologically, physical strength comes from mitochondria, which are organelles that generate all of our body's energy. A unique feature of mitochondria is… — Weike Wange Copy Share Image
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
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The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those… — Arthur R. Jensen Copy Share Image
'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“As soon as you say, 'I'm going to use the legal system to impose my will on you,' you're buying into a… — Dan Fagin Copy Share Image
There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“And if several of the more difficult sciences are still [pg 023] in so defective a state; if not only so little… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on.… — Scott Heim Copy Share Image
![“[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about 'why' questions. When we ask, 'Why?' we usually mean 'How?' If we can answer the latter, that generally suffices for our purposes. For example, we might ask: 'Why is the Earth 93 million miles from the Sun?' but what we really probably mean…” quote by Lawrence M. Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/564/lawrence-m-krauss-2566_purpose_i-n-science-we-have-to-be-particularly-c_1080225.jpg)
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