It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Economics is not a science and should not be there to advise policy.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists. — James Randi Copy Share Image
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.” — Bilal Hussain Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“They should be bundled like an atheist software package to reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Ellington would be growing up in a culture saturated with an idea you might call the cognitive hypothesis: the belief... that success… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“But underneath all this reasonable talk, this scientific speculating, no white Afrikaner could quite put down the way it felt…Something sinister was… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of… — John Jeremiah Bigsby Copy Share Image
Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image