Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“the right words. In 2014, researchers at Georgia Tech published a study in which they examined over nine million words and phrases… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Right now there are some fifteen thousand scientists authorized to work with deadly pathogens, but there are zero federal agencies charged with… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-five: all that is necessary,… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone… — Kelvin Ogilvie Copy Share Image
“This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world doesn't have to be like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old]… — John Reader Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of… — Mary Hesse Copy Share Image
Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that… — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level:… — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“until the archives of the Masonic lodges became accessible, researchers were heavily reliant on memoirs and documents confiscated and published by the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I was uncovering cognitive abilities in Alex that no one believed were possible, and challenging science’s deepest assumptions about the origin of… — Irene M. Pepperberg Copy Share Image
“many scientists have interfered with science in precisely the way courts always worried tissue donors might do. “It’s ironic,” she told me.… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“Art, science, love, inspiration, ideals—choose out all the words with which humanity is wont, or has been in the past, to be… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“It is the place of science only to observe… To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Psychology researchers now claim that it is important for babies to learn how to stop crying by themselves. Fortunately, many parents still… — Naomi Stadlen Copy Share Image
“In science, an observer states his results along with the “probable error”; but who ever heard of a theologian or a politician… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art . . .… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image