Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
“Robert Boyle, the English scientist largely responsible for the creation of the modern discipline of chemistry, interviewed miners in the 1670s in… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“the only ideological or political factions that have made any attempt at an ethics consistent with Darwinian science, to this point at… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“You create reality by looking at it, is what Quantum Mechanics suggests. This may sound outrageously magical. Quantum Mechanics or QM, is… — Sharad Nalawade Copy Share Image
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information — this is what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Men recorded their experiences and called it history; men looked about the world and called their observations science; men wondered about the… — Linda Tschirhart Sanford Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“No writer in the world agonizes over words the way a scientist does. Terminology is everything: we identify something by its established… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Alexander Rostov was neither scientist nor sage; but at the age of sixty-four he was wise enough to know that life does… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.'… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define it. One… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“In the course of an extended investigation into the nature of inflammation, and the healthy and morbid conditions of the blood in… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
“Insects are major players in nature's recycling effort, and in nature a corpse is simply organic matter to be recycled. Left to… — M. Lee Goff Copy Share Image
“Following Jesus doesn’t mean believing outdated creeds or literal understandings of scripture or turning my back on science. I respect my childhood… — Bruce G. Epperly Copy Share Image
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A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“He (Comings) has in the past performed successful energy-converting experiments, creating a ringing resonance by injecting certain frequencies into piezo-electric crystals. When… — Jeane Manning Copy Share Image
From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the… — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image