“Scientists were earnestly trying to elucidate the spontaneous generation of mice as late as the seventeenth century, when Jean Baptista van Helmont… — Sandor Ellix Katz Copy Share Image
I mean, dance music is a simple chord structure, a hook, and then you put drums on it and some synths. It's… — Raye Copy Share Image
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“This was not an academic matter. Biology, as George Wald had said, was a unique science because it could not define its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's… — Mitchell A. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The older Puritans had trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously upon the spiritual cravings. But in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young,… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line…… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Technopoly is to say that its information immune system is inoperable. Technopoly is a form of cultural AIDS, which I here use… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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