In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The irrefutable fact is that Christianity gave birth to modern science. The scientific revolution began with the Protestant Reformation and the Bible… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
“We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped… — Philip Dick Copy Share Image
At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
“However, I have a stronger hunch that the greatest part of the important biomedical research waiting to be done is in the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“as I intend, you should begin to look with different eyes at your immediate surroundings, seeing not just leaves but yourself and… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Sophisticated human beings were on hand to see this volcano's convulsions, they were able to investigate the event, and they were able… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
“Each volcano is an independent machine—nay, each vent and monticule is for the time being engaged in its own peculiar business, cooking… — Clarence Edward Dutton Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Based on my review of the scientific literature, I suggest that you aim for a daily carbohydrate intake target that is based… — Velopress Copy Share Image
“Researchers have confirmed what porn producers already know: men tend to get turned on by images depicting an environment in which sperm… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Reality is incredibly larger, infinitely more exciting, than the flesh and blood vehicle we travel in here. If you read science fiction,… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“What do scientists mean when they talk of a virus? This is not quite so elementary as some people might believe. In… — Frank Ryan Copy Share Image
“Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
“Many network theorists note that human beings differ dramatically from the rational profit maximizer of social science theory. Neuroscientists exploring different regions… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation… — Robert Henry Thurston Copy Share Image
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image