“Even if many really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Why don't you take a good look at yourself! What do yousee?! A doctor, a scientist, a businessman? You see a scar-faced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
“But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one… — Margaret Lazarus Dean Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied.… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“They keep telling you this: Have faith! But which faith? That is the crucial question! Here is a good faith you can… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow 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
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“Science, even evolutionary science, bases its theories, its predictions, and its conclusions on the stability of physical laws. Evolutionary science makes the… — Henry Morris III Copy Share Image
“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls.… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
... our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of… — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
Science and its practice are no longer free and willing today but instead are constantly terrorized by research funding gravy trains and… — Willie Soon Copy Share Image
But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds… It is difficult for the matter-of-fact… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Ernesto "Che" Guevara Copy Share Image
For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some scientists behave like preachers, delivering sermons to people. What this approach ignores is the fact that there are many threats… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We live in a world that operates according to a few general laws of nature. Everything you do from the moment you… — Robert M. Hazen Copy Share Image
