“That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“[A]ll knowledge goes through both stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegration back into noise again. The process… — James Blish Copy Share Image
“My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward… 'Think what it must have been… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“It is so irresponsible for people in the ‘I want to change the course of my society’ community to not do the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I started to teach social science for the sixth grade. I wasn't a teacher, but I had enough college lessons. I was… — Ed ONeill Copy Share Image
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you… — David Cheriton Copy Share Image
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“ Derrière la série de Fourier , d'autres séries analogues sont entrées dans la domaine de l'analyse; elles y sont entrees par… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines -… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just… — Eva Vertes Copy Share Image
Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“It cannot, of course, be stated with absolute certainty that no elements can combine with argon; but it appears at least improbable… — William Ramsay Copy Share Image
The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace.… — Howard Wolpe Copy Share Image
“It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet...I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“When an important change takes place in science, in which a new theory takes the stagw, the incoming theory is generally an… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“In a laboratory study, a researcher from Virginia Commonwealth University observed college students during a three-hour study session using video cameras and… — Adam Gazzaley Copy Share Image
“Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the… — Edgar Allen Poe Copy Share Image
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious… — Christopher Knight & Alan Butler Copy Share Image