I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one. — William James Copy Share Image
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer. — Edmund Berkeley Copy Share Image
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going to wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of… — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false. — John Ziman Copy Share Image
“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Small nonlinearities were easy to disregard. People who conduct experiments learn quickly that they live in an imperfect world.” — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“And just what is the nature of things?” “It’s beyond us. Not to be understood. The sun blows a fuse here and… — Scott Nicholson Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
