I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on.… — Scott Heim Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the day will come when Western science is able to confirm the existence of immaterial forces and realms. Compelling research in… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
“God is a concept more than anything else. The idea of God or about God, as it functions in religions, doesn’t deal… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take… — Siméon Denis Poisson Copy Share Image
In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“What is it, she asks me, why do people cry? Why do we cry when we're happy and when we're sad or… — Liza Wieland Copy Share Image
I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Fritz Muller Copy Share Image
Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make… — Stephen Hales Copy Share Image
“It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construct and… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“Margaret's favorite kind of news story is - would anyone believe this? - the weather. The dull, the prosaic, the default I-have-nothing-else-to-talk-about-so-let's-talk-about-the-weather… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
“If parents start to fear that monsters may have been let loose in their children's bedrooms, it may be because their children… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about 'why' questions. When we ask, 'Why?' we usually mean 'How?' If we can… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“Biologically, physical strength comes from mitochondria, which are organelles that generate all of our body's energy. A unique feature of mitochondria is… — Weike Wange Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — L. Harrison Matthews Copy Share Image
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those… — Arthur R. Jensen Copy Share Image
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“And if several of the more difficult sciences are still [pg 023] in so defective a state; if not only so little… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image