With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it.… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“Knowing what you’re aiming for is essential. In a famous study of Yale University students, researchers found that only 3% had written… — Karen McCreadie Copy Share Image
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“ [Pechblende] einer eigenthümlichen, selbstständigen metallischen Substanz bestehe. Es fallen folglich auch deren bisherige Benennungen, als: Ресhblende Eisenpecherz, hinweg, welche nun durch… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“Some questions simply have no answers. It was meant to be that way. If we could prove empirically that God exists -… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“The study of the universe as a whole is a unique enterprise. At least in one sense one is seeking to understand… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“In those days, this was years for the sputnik thing, it was customary to downgrade the Russians' science. People who know something… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because… — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If you think atomic explosions in Asia wouldn't affect Americans, consider this. A study published in Scientific American in 2010 looked at… — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature,… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
![“If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making…” quote by Clayton Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c34/clayton-christensen-2433_anomalies_if-the-theory-accurately-predicts-what-t_1821068.png)
![“[Pechblende] einer eigenthümlichen, selbstständigen metallischen Substanz bestehe. Es fallen folglich auch deren bisherige Benennungen, als: Ресhblende Eisenpecherz, hinweg, welche nun durch einen neuen ausschliessend bezeichnenden Namen zu ersetzen sind. Ich habe dazu den Namen: Uranerz (Uranium)…” quote by Martin Heinrich Klaproth](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/37e/martin-heinrich-klaproth-72236_astronomy_pechblende-einer-eigenth-mlichen-selbsts_689048.jpg)
![“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by…” quote by Urbain Le Verrier](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a11/urbain-le-verrier-108136_age_this-success-permits-us-to-hope-that-aft_1431791.jpg)
