Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“Can you sleep-deprive your way out of a depressed episode? Some researchers think that it may be possible. Using a technique called… — Candida Fink Copy Share Image
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Second, be very careful to think about your audience’s premises. Don’t assume, for example, that everyone listening trusts the Bible. So when… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
You have to imagine a world in which there's this abundance of data, with all of these connected devices generating tons and… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
“When people have trouble with their emotions – a bout of anxiety or depression, say, or seasonal gloominess - they often want… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Scientific exploration is basically establishing an order of judgments which are necessary for conclusion. Its the process of observation; comparing; inferring; experimenting… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
“One of the tasks of science is to redefine the word and concept of God so that we can come up with… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace's dream of a theory of science, a model of the universe that would be… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The primary claim made by the IPCC and other warmists was that there was a ‘consensus’ among the world’s scientists, but anyone… — Alan Caruba Copy Share Image
“When it comes to our embedded beliefs, our relative intolerance to ambiguous and contrary information leads us in many instances to ignore… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate… — Willie Soon Copy Share Image
The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
“Joseph Andreas Epp. Epp told us that German scientists had secret UFOs’ facilities in Germany and Poland. He particularly mentioned the UFOs’… — Maximillien de Lafayette Copy Share Image
“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them,… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
![“[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.” quote by Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/980/loren-eiseley-3848_air_on-common-water-its-substance-reaches-ev_441639.png)
![“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must take countermeasures, but beyond that there is not much to say. Evolution cannot help us predict what new vaccines to manufacture because microbes evolve…” quote by Jerry A. Coyne](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/82a/jerry-a-coyne-13913_biology_if-truth-be-told-evolution-hasn-t-yielde_1623500.jpg)
