In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been,… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
“The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent roads will be built. There… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with… — Bernhard von Cotta Copy Share Image
'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
“The division of our culture is making us more obtuse than we need be: we can repair communications to some extent: but,… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We've lost an edge that we used to have in scientific innovation applications to goods to be sold. In many ways, that… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly,… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
I'm not naive. Sometimes interpretation is more of an art than a science. There are those who would label interpretation absolutely anything… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Science has proven that while your genes control your biology, a rather simple, nondrug formula of nutrient-rich food, targeted supplements to address… — Sara Gottfried Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“I felt like a character in a science fiction story, trapped in someone else's body, articulating someone else's words. To be frank,… — Philip Palmer Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
A country is not developed by constructing bridges, houses or roads but it is developed only if the brains of the people… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and… — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Trying to figure out how something works on that deep level, the first ninety-nine explanations you come up with are wrong. The… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image