[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge… — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up.… — Moby Copy Share Image
There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If these d'Herelle bodies were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure, in time,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who… — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Copy Share Image
“For the early scientists, the image of God was not a dry doctrine to which they gave merely cognitive assent. Nor was… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute,… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
“Please understand something. God didn’t create evil in the world, but He did create free will, which allowed for the possibility of… — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I don't myself think much of science as a phase of human development. It has given us a lot of ingenious toys;… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
“A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
“We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided… — Lyman Spitzer Copy Share Image
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more… — Reginald Punnett Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is different from science and from mathematics. Unlike science it doesn't rely on experiments or observation, but only on thought. And… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical… — David Watson Copy Share Image
“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Some of my scientific friends and colleagues confess that they cannot for the life of them see why I don't abandon ship… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“These and similar examples are easy enough to uncover, and they make two crucial points: first, good science does not require experiments,… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
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