“Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
“Without the continued existence of the democratic system and of publicly funded education and research, however, most current teachers and intellectuals would… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Storm’s Fast-Flux and Conficker’s Domain-Flux In 2007, security researchers identified a new technique used by the infamous Storm botnet (Higgins, 2007). The… — Tj O'Connor Copy Share Image
“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds… — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
“As much as the scientific community currently enthralled with mindfulness would like to set aside the ethical component of the Buddhist tradition… — Andrew Olendzki Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He's the voice of science and scientific thinking in the United States and… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Those that entered the ark in pairs were for the purpose of repopulating their kind after the Flood. This is why the… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes said that the greatest remaining scientific questions are: What caused the Big Bang? What is the grand unified theory that… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
A lot of science doesn't require big "ns" but if you're trying to understand something about human health and you're looking at… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I see lies everywhere - switch on the television, it's lies. Everything is lies. In the art world or science community, we… — Paola Pivi Copy Share Image
I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progress. For them and… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We scientists can argue forever about important topics like slightly different flavors of vanilla ice cream. Consider the silliness of this debate:… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
“Scientists still know very little about how the olfactory cortex in the brain converts impulses from receptors into conscious senses of smell.… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades ago, it… — Philip Ball Copy Share Image
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
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