What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning… — John Medina Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose… — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
“Let us accept the possibility that there is, at death, not an abrupt cessation of energy, rather a dispersal. This seems more… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
The elite government does have devices that can create earthquakes anywhere in the world that they want. I was just in Russia… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“And when you lay in bed with your wife, are you mentally there or with the women on TV? Or the women… — Amby C. Ezem Copy Share Image
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Live in the world, Yoga Science teaches, but be not of the world. Do not let yourself be defined or limited by… — Leonard Perlmutter Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos,… — Kesha Rogers Copy Share Image
“The same trend is noticeable in the scientific realm: research here is for its own sake far more than for the partial… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
“We often think that combining tasks will save us time, but scientific evidence shows that it has the opposite effect. Even those… — Hector Garcia Puigcerver Copy Share Image
“Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way… — Matt Dillahunty Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“The holes in front of us were fossilized tracks, huge ones. Dinosaur tracks, no doubt. As we looked closer, we could see… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“It is in our collective behavior that we are the most mysterious. We won't be able to construct machines like ourselves until… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
