“Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“...the ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion. Thus it… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“I just question the value of isolated math, science and literary skills - especially when they're achieved at the expense of social… — Muffy Mead-Ferro Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the… — William James Copy Share Image
“For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all… — Stanislao Cannizzaro Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Be around those who crave new galaxies in you. The light through your veins. Poetic science. Wider vision. Gentler strength. The moon… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting… — Jim Clyburn Copy Share Image
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
“Today temperament continues to be a major focus of researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, physiology, and neurobiology. While they agree… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality of the behaviorist notwithstanding). A friend of mine, a… — Jack S. Willis Copy Share Image
In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
The most recent science including from Jim Hansen, the foremost climate scientist, suggests that we could see as much as, according to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how… — Robert Kenner Copy Share Image
“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image