Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action;… — Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough Copy Share Image
“The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of… — Adi Shamir Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Science shows that passion is contagious, literally. You cannot inspire others unless you are inspired yourself. You stand a much greater chance… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
“Personally, I think sex should be like math. At school. No one really cares if they're crap at math. They even proclaim… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had… — Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ Copy Share Image
On 'MythBusters,' a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There's… — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Just as no particular branch of knowledge is self-sufficing so all branches together are not self-sufficing without the queen of knowledge, philosophy,… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“For the man on the street, science and math sound too and soulless. It is hard to appreciate their significance Most of… — Sharad Nalawade Copy Share Image
There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis.… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“After reading the salary, I've decided that I must refuse. The reason I have to refuse a salary like that is I… — Feynman Copy Share Image
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“We walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot ( she said and proved that she… — Otto Robert Frisch Copy Share Image
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital… — Katherine Parkinson Copy Share Image
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
“Only a great fool would call the new political science diabolic: it has no attributes peculiar to fallen angels. It is not… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
In science there is something known as a stem cell. A stem cell is an undifferentiated cell which has not yet decided… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer… — Thomas Beddoes Copy Share Image