“cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Adam Gottbetter defines focus groups as being a form of group interview where is capitalized the communication between research participants. This is… — Adam Gottbetter Copy Share Image
“A few more years passed before I understood the distance between that satellite and the stars. Back then I was reading a… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
“The three creative prototypes, the scientist, the artist, and the saint, know instinctively, without the help of any mere philosopher, that each… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“His laws changed all of physics and astronomy. His laws made it possible to calculate the mass of the sun and planets.… — Walter Lewin Copy Share Image
Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as… — Ibrahim Hooper Copy Share Image
“The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
“The evolved preference for sugary and fatty foods (a functional mechanism) may lead to obesity because of a mismatch with modern nutrition… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“In essence what relativity says is that space and time are not absolute but relative both to the observer and the thing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning… — Horace-Benedict de Saussure Copy Share Image
When dealing with data, scientists have often struggled to account for the risks and harms using it might inflict. One primary concern… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the… — David Lasser Copy Share Image
“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed by the strongest evidence that we have,… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the very prevalent impression, indeed we might say the practically universal persuasion, that there was nothing worth while talking about in… — James Joseph Walsh Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
“Önerme şudur: Beyin, sinir sistemi ve duyu organlarının işlevi aslında eleyicidir, üretici değil. Her insan, her an kendi başına gelenleri anımsamak ve… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over… — Joseph L. Bast Copy Share Image
“The modern scientific method in which experiments form part of a structured system of hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis is as recent as… — Bee Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image