The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Back in the day, the story goes, four science fiction writers - Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and L Ron Hubbard… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“I believe that the Big-Bang Theory and the Evolution Theory, as well as Einstein’s Special Relativity Theory which does not allow for… — Dr. Takaaki Musha Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“It is to geometry that we owe in some sort the source of this discovery [of beryllium]; it is that [science] that… — Antoine-François De Fourcroy Copy Share Image
“But then in middle school science, Mr. Martinez asked who among us had ever fantasized about living in the clouds, and everyone… — John Green Copy Share Image
If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I'm there. I'm gonna say, "Yeah. Here's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Even the best strategy sometimes yields bad results—which is why computer scientists take care to distinguish between “process” and “outcome.” If you… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Science is predicated upon the belief that the Universe is algorithmically compressible and the modern search for a Theory of Everything is… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Until the 1800s, most people from the Middle East to the Western World believed what the Bible records about creation and the… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“I don’t trust the science behind the vegetarian movement because the believers have agendas beyond nutrition. Some vegetarians are in the lifestyle… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“The will to believe has given us our great saints. The will to doubt has given us our great scientists. The goal… — Glenn Frank Copy Share Image
“The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you don't have enough money to hire a real science teacher. Sometimes you have an old real science teacher who retires… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing. Perhaps what… — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
“There exists indeed an opposition to it [ building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college ] by the friends of William and Mary,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I'm also part of the great conspiracy of global scientists to promote the myths of climate change, evolution, vaccination, and a spherical… — Dean Burnett Copy Share Image
Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and… — Vernon Coleman Copy Share Image
Well, I grew up in Maine, so it was an unlikely place to start. But my parents were really, really cool about… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image