If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“I recently asked more than seventy eminent researchers if they would have done I their work differently if they had thought Darwin's… — Philip S. Skell Copy Share Image
You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
“A farmer has a way of standing on one leg and looking at a thing that isn’t there. It sounds simple, but… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke,… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality.… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying.… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead,… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“So there were two worlds: the perceived world, a dimension of adjectives, equations and brush strokes, a surface dazzling with our efforts… — Bia Lowe Copy Share Image
It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Call it "a wonder" or "a mystery" and you have an excuse to never try understanding it - an excuse to not… — Lynna Merrill Copy Share Image
“The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind that we all unconsciously practise… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“I think [the scientific method is] the only method we have to try to get some approximate understanding of the world. I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Dink, my boy, I'll be a millionaire in ten years. You know what I'm figuring out all this time? I'm going at… — Owen Johnson Copy Share Image
“ In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
Chris Ferguson brought up a really interesting point that I agree with, and he said science is a human endeavor. The more… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
“How to live as divided cells — voilà! Something always eludes the scientists, the poets, the stargazers, the biologists, the anthropologists. Something… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. ... It's… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“Dogs are losing their noses. Other research has supported the odd and disturbing result that companion dogs are not only not using… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...… — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Evolution of Gods utilizes modern science to explain why, when and how religions and gods became the desirable explanations of inexplicable… — Ajay Kansal Copy Share Image
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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