.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“In the statistical gargon used in psychology, p refers to the probability that the difference you see between two groups (of introverts… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his… — Benjamin Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
The world is hungry for the discoveries that young, leading-edge brain researchers are making in Ontario today. This collaboration will help them… — Brad Duguid Copy Share Image
“In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that… — Henry Enfield Roscoe Copy Share Image
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
“Pero la vida no sabe a donde se dirige. No tiene un plan a largo plazo. No tiene una finalidad en mente.… — Carl Sagan e Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“In addressing a subcommittee of the National Science Board (it oversees the National Science Foundation) charged with reviewing “transformational” science, he remarked:… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
“Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
“It strikes me that religion—in its essence—seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
“It was fun to see him becoming sententious again, glorying in a science he had invented, and as positive as a village… — Colette Copy Share Image
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Someone asked me very recently why I have 8 million views on TED - "your work resonates, what are you doing?" What… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image