“Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“If our sides were unequal our angles might be unequal. Instead of its being sufficient to feel, or estimate by sight, a… — Edwin Abbott Copy Share Image
Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking,… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Because I see myself, first and foremost, as a man pursuing answers to fundamental questions. Now, if the people around me”—he gestures… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“College students were instructed to sit by themselves for up to fifteen minutes in a sparsely furnished, unadorned room and “entertain themselves… — James Kingsland Copy Share Image
“The communities were in fierce competition with each other. They had their rich and their poor; they had orators and conquerors; they… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Innovation, especially in America, is continuing at a breakneck pace, even in areas facing substantial political or regulatory headwinds. The advances in… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
“Bipedalism is a demanding and risky strategy. It means refashioning the pelvis into a full load-bearing instrument. To preserve the required strength,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the… — Victor Grignard Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
“Don't need reason to be kind (Sonnet 2933) Philosophies there are hundreds, school there is but one - life. Sciences there are… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of… — Alexander William Williamson Copy Share Image
“Yet, the principle of uncertainty is a bad name. In science or outside of it, we are not uncertain. Our knowledge is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“A true anecdote which illustrates his unworldly nature is of the instruction he received in 1922 to appear at Buckingham Palace to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
![“Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the…” quote by Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/fbf/francis-bacon-297_cures_doctor-johnson-said-that-in-sickness-the_2561593.jpg)
![“Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with…” quote by Clifford Allbutt](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/cd8/clifford-allbutt-48855_doubt_students-who-have-attended-my-medical-le_1208718.jpg)
![“Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of organic bodies is confused by the introduction of unexplained symbols for imaginary differences in the mode of combination of its elements... It would be just as reasonable to describe an…” quote by Alexander William Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/730/alexander-william-williamson-1_botanist_not-one-of-them-formulae-can-be-shown-to_2248055.jpg)
![“[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0b3/carl-sagan-160_argument_science-is-not-perfect-it-can-be-misused_2558360.jpg)
