But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
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“Point” of creation, like a Big Bang, is the passage through Zero between the immaterial, “timeless,” and “spaceless” Absolute into the Universe… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that… — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam... I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously… — Isaiah Hankel Copy Share Image
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“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A story about the Jack Spratts of medicine [was] told recently by Dr. Charles H. Best , co-discoverer of insulin. He had… — Richard Mackarness Copy Share Image
I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.… — Avi Copy Share Image
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
It is as though nature is a wonderful symphony that science sits in awe of. It looks closely at each player, how… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
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One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
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Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
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