Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility.… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form.… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Today, scientists and doctors find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by vast armies of individuals who feel entitled to pass judgment on matters… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“The Secoya are trapped between the devastating effects of the colonization frontier and their rich traditional past, which is proving to be… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
The Joker is the kind of guy who will come up with a plan to kidnap a scientist and have them create… — Shamus Young Copy Share Image
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
While 15-year-olds in China blitz their peers in the West in math, reading and science, we are warping the minds of our… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“It is possible that those strange sentient beings of the far-future cold universe will find contemplating a warm universe such as ours… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“ Willard Gibbs is the type of the imagination at work in the world. His story is that of an opening up… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“An egg is a chemical process, but it is not a mere chemical process. It is one that is going places—even when,… — John Randall Copy Share Image
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena… — Robert Lowie Copy Share Image
No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“(7) Evolution contradicts the scientific law that no effect can be greater than its cause, since it assumes that intelligence was developed… — Henry M. Morris III Copy Share Image
“All the seeds of Christianity -- of superstition, were sown in my mind and cultivated with great diligence and care. All that… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
“Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't changed for thousands of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“Since it might appear unusual that a bio-psychiatrist should work as an expert in the realm of non-living nature, I believe it… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image