Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“One could argue that the observer effect is the primary energetic dynamic of ‘reality’ itself. This effect showcases the eminently malleable nature… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she… — tom robbins Copy Share Image
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the Clinton campaign showed no sign at all that the midwestern states Trump’s scientists now considered winnable were even in play. As… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
“All knowledge systems, from modern science to those embedded in the most ancient of creation myths, can be thought of as maps… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
“There's no science that can't be used for good or for evil. Science could be used by whoever has the power to… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
“In contrast, the Soviet answer to Paperclip, Operation Osoaviakhim, used the implied threat of imprisonment, torture, and death, the characteristic tools of… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I agree with the overwhelming majority of scientists who recognize that climate change is real, and it's essential that our country honors… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory of human sexuality. Carefree sex… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“It must be dawn, and the last breath went out of this body on the table - how long before? Irretrievably gone… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Note, please, that I condemn only junk science (as does Mr Delingpole): this is in fact a measure of my, and his,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“A faulty understanding of science, along with rigorism and spiritual flattening in religion, termed scientism or biblicism, respectively, have taken hold of… — Florian Dreveskracht Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I hear them marvel at my work--my indignant science. I hear them call out in fear of what they see. And there… — E.B. Hudspeth Copy Share Image
A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“The popular social network Twitter is handing over to data scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s famed Media Lab every message… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist;… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
“- Please God, Yahweh, Aslan, Buddha or whatever name you prefer, it's me, Penelope. I know we've never talked before probably because,… — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image