“And just what is the nature of things?” “It’s beyond us. Not to be understood. The sun blows a fuse here and… — Scott Nicholson Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
“There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts Copy Share Image
“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Personal Construct Therapy was the pioneer of a fully constructivist psychology, emphasizing that people are essentially like scientists in continually developing meanings… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
“I give you now Professor Twist The conscientious scientist. Trustees exclaimed, “He never bungles” And sent him off to distant jungles. Camped… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
“Dragons and Afterlife .. I don't see any difference between both of them, we didn't see neither the dragons nor afterlife, we… — Sherif Gaber Copy Share Image
“I like the term "decedent." It's as though the man weren't dead, but merely involved in some sort of protracted legal dispute.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“The exact science of human regeneration is the Lost Key of Masonry, for when the Spirit Fire is lifted up through the… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“True genius is the one of the heart, not of intellect. Because intellect-less heart, though exploited a lot, still does good, whereas… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Visionary fiction” is a term we developed to distinguish science fiction that has relevance toward building new, freer worlds from the mainstream… — Adrienne Maree Brown Copy Share Image
Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women.… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for… — John Searle Copy Share Image
