“Scientists, famously, use a lot of mathematics, at least in many disciplines (including both cognitive science and economics). Much of this is… — Don Ross Copy Share Image
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to use statements such as “there is no south of the South Pole” as proof that there is nothing… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
“Did you know that in 2009, more chemicals caused by chemicals than motor vehicle accidents? Are you surprised? This is the real… — Brett West Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Regarding kids who attended church, Beemer found that: Eighty-three percent said their science teachers taught them that the earth was millions or… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“This is a strange Christmas Eve,"Churchill told the the crowd of several hundred gathered at the mansion's garden."Almost the whole world is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference… — William Wilson Morgan Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut),… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
“In the sciences...if anyone advances anything new...people resist with all their might; they speak of the new view with contempt, as if… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Heartless reality does not grant humans the lifespan necessary to master every specialty of science, so no one genius in his secret… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they worked well with the filling… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
“The researchers looked deeper into these observations, in hopes of gaining insight into the mechanisms underlying the high evolutionary rate and extraordinary… — Michael G Cordingley Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to… — R. Heber Newton Copy Share Image
Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image