Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more,… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
Given that many girls are indoctrinated to believe that they should be feminine and modest about their abilities, as well as brought… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“In reading Western science fiction, Chinese readers discover the fears and hopes of Man, the modern Prometheus, for his destiny, which is… — Xia Jia Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“For one who simply makes an academic study of Bhagavad-gītā, the science of Kṛṣṇa remains a mystery. Bhagavad-gītā is not a book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life which stops when physical maturity is reached. If growth continues… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They… — Stephanie Kwolek Copy Share Image
“It seems to us that there are four great collective sociological assumptions in the modern world. By this we mean not only… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, growing up during the 1970s, I used to read a lot of horror and science fiction. I… — Mark Samuels Copy Share Image
“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“What are the minimum figures for animals on the ark? Researcher Arthur Jones, writing in the Creation Research Society Quarterly in 1973,… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“The normal distribution is not nearly as ubiquitous as it once seemed. For about 100 years now, and especially during the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each little update - each individual bit of social information - is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together,… — Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Copy Share Image
“Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
“Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
“By the 1960s, the electronic computer had become an integral tool of science, technology, and business. Without its capacities for memorizing, calculating,… — Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Biologists are diligently unraveling the mystery of how such formidable creatures like dinosaurs vanished from the face of the Earth. Meanwhile, our… — Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved… The precise… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
“The scientist in him imagined the scientist in her; he sometimes pictured Violet as a tiny being in the cockpit of a… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“[There is an] immense advantage to be gained by ample space and appropriate surroundings in aiding the formation of a just idea… — William Henry Flower Copy Share Image
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
![“The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More…” quote by William Johnson Sollas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8a7/william-johnson-sollas-104311_age_the-age-of-the-earth-was-thus-increased_2109917.jpg)
![“[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to…” quote by Stephanie Kwolek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b88/stephanie-kwolek-65494_able_at-dupont-i-was-very-fortunate-that-i-wo_1631166.jpg)
![“Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections of chemicals made in the cataclysmic explosions of stars; we are stardust, or nuclear waste, depending on your perspective.” quote by Michael Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/06d/michael-brooks-61087_astronomy_every-advance-in-science-will-most-likel_1478630.jpg)
![“Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful…” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/afb/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_abstract_science-only-means-knowledge-and-for-gre_734948.jpg)
![“[There is an] immense advantage to be gained by ample space and appropriate surroundings in aiding the formation of a just idea of the beauty and interest of each specimen... Nothing detracts so much from the enjoyment ... from a visit to a museum as the overcrowding of the specimens exhibited.” quote by William Henry Flower](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/993/william-henry-flower-286995_advantage_there-is-an-immense-advantage-to-be-gain_288665.jpg)
