“Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The mountains of Ararat are part of the larger mountain chain called the Alpide Belt or Alpine-Himalayan Belt. This range extends from… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite… — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Journalists, whose job is to pull back and tell dramatic stories that bring power into focus, find it impossible because things like… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something… — John Mayow Copy Share Image
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether… — Ralph Alfred Habas Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“Whose interest does ignorance serve? If we humans bear, say, hereditary propensities toward the hatred of strangers, isn’t self-knowledge the only antidote?… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Dissection ... teaches us that the body of man is made up of certain kinds of material, so differing from each other… — Michael Foster Copy Share Image
“... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this… — Christopher Copy Share Image
“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an… — James Tate Copy Share Image
If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is… — Samuel Wilks Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ours is thus a realism of lush and leafy spaces rather than deserts, with science regularly revealing new thickets of canopy. Anyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being on the moon is about harnessing science and technology. Waveless waterbeds are about harnessing nature and that, by definition, is not… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image