Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The promoters of the standards claim they are based in research. They are not. There is no convincing research, for example, showing… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“I picked up an old microscope at a flea market in Verona. In the long evenings, in my imitation of life science,… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not,… — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
“My name is Ferrum. I was the first, born of the forges, when mankind first began to experiment with iron. I rose… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
“More profoundly, Nihilist "simplification" may be seen in the universal prestige today accorded the lowest order of knowledge, the scientific, as well… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings… — Rudolph Schoenheimer Copy Share Image
If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she… — William James Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I reviewed five areas of research showing that moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Scientific theories are tested every time someone makes an observation or conducts an experiment, so it is misleading to think of science… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Copy Share Image
“Simplify? Let me try. In school days, we are taught that if there are four animals in a room and you add… — Ravindra Shukla Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“I once read that if the folds in the cerebral cortex were smoothed out it would cover a card table. That seemed… — Jay Ingram Copy Share Image
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right… — Jeffrey Boam Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and… — Philip K Dick Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image