People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which… — Paul Bartsch Copy Share Image
“When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I was led to the conclusion that at the most extreme dilutions all salts would consist of simple conducting molecules. But the… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Either God exists or he does not. There is no middle ground. Both cannot be true. No amount of philosophical trickery can… — Joe Boot Copy Share Image
apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
“You have known the pleasure and the convenience of modern science; so why the Dhyanalinga? It is because I want you to… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of today are still in the rudimentary stage. The science of our time has attacked… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Do you want a revolution in science? Do what businesspeople do when they want a technological revolution: Just change the rules a… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Scientists call this shutdown7 “transient hypofrontality.” Transient means temporary. “Hypo,” the opposite of “hyper,” means “less than normal.” And frontality refers to… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Science has not given men more self-control, more kindliness, or more power of discounting their passions in deciding upon a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“One cringes to hear scientists cooing over the universe or any part thereof like schoolgirls over-heated by their first crush. From the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
“But why anything comes to be there at all, and whether there is anything behind the things science observes—something of a different… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS, THERE ARE three stages of love: lust, attraction, and attachment. And, it turns out, each of the stages is… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image