The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is a universal reservoir, the source of all knowledge, which is the same for the arts and sciences as for philosophy… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“To the best of our scientific understanding, determinism and randomness have divided the entire cake between them, leaving not even a crumb… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies.… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
I'm here to encourage everyone to look at the data themselves, not just buy what they're told. I find that my standards… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I’ve said several times that the brain acts like a scientist. It forms hypotheses through prediction and tests them against the “data”… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Zen comes closer to science than any other religion for the simple reason that it does not require any faith. It requires… — OSHO Copy Share Image
“The Self (Atma) is itself in the form of Science (Vignan swaroop). That is why it indeed Sees science everywhere. There is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
“Designers can learn from library science. In trying to deliver information, what are the cognitive frameworks or resistances to absorbing information? We're… — Kim Baer Copy Share Image
“As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
This is what the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) represents. Experimental, explorational science. Learning about Mars as a new world. Discovering new things… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra, sometimes translated Thus Spake Zarathustra), subtitled A Book for All and None (Ein Buch für… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
“Indoctrination,” Michael Simpson replied. “We still base our science on the Theory of Relativity. Not because it is one hundred percent correct,… — Erik Hamre Copy Share Image
“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry. I cry for tolerance, they call it philosophy. I reject prejudice, they call it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image