Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
“Kinds are like the dog sort (including dingoes, wolves, coyotes, domestic dogs, etc.), cat sort (including lions, tigers, cougars, bobcats, domestic cats,… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of… — Hannah Landecker Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — George Miller Sternberg Copy Share Image
A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Many people under the influence of science, and particularly neuro-nonsense, will say the sacred is an old concept, it’s just a hangover,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“It only took starlings (a type of bird) about 100 years to cover the entire North American continent when about 60 were… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
“My target is a comprehensive, speculative world picture that is reached by extrapolation from some of the discoveries of biology, chemistry, and… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
“To appeal to common sense when insight and science fail, and no sooner—this is one of the subtle discoveries of modern times,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile… — Scott F. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues… — Konrad Bloch Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“So Dan Miller decided to roast a pig. The idea took hold of him after another eruption on August 7. He would… — Dick Thompson Copy Share Image
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In case after case, Fred Singer, Fred Seitz, and a handful of other scientists joined forces with think tanks and private corporations… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet … No national law, no national precautions can save the… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us,… — William James Copy Share Image
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The science behind Interstellar is interesting, because some of it is absolutely real astrophysics and orbital mechanics, some of it is theoretical… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing,… — Mark Pocan Copy Share Image