If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
“Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way… — Matt Dillahunty Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Live in the world, Yoga Science teaches, but be not of the world. Do not let yourself be defined or limited by… — Leonard Perlmutter Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos,… — Kesha Rogers Copy Share Image
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image