“Two different geologists (who simply do not have a hand in this debate since they are secular), who were searching for oil… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally… — Frank Sulloway Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The two researchers collaborated on a pilot study.32 What they found was that loneliness reprogrammed a person’s genes in the same way… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“Do you really not know of the magnificence of war? Or how worthless peace is? Peace only leads mankind to depravity! What… — Go Nagai Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for… — James Callis Copy Share Image
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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
“The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first… — D. R. Khashaba Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
“The discovery of an interaction among the four hemes made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
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A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The world of things entered your infant mind To populate that crystal cabinet. Within its walls the strangest partners met, And things… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I wanted to find out when I started working on the book—that's always fascinated me—I have great… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great… — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
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