“It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.” — Angelic-Demon Copy Share Image
Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
“Lisa, love is magical,” Rema said. “Scientists give such simplified explanations for it, and they’re wrong, because love isn’t something that happens… — Monique Snyman Copy Share Image
My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great… — Joel Klein Copy Share Image
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Religionists claim that their truth is absolute and rock solid, while scientists concede that their truth is tentative and relative.” — C. W. Dalton Copy Share Image
Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
“I have a disdain,” he says, “for complicated fancy equipment because it takes a lot of time to learn how to use,… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof.… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
“Truly to realize the ambitions of a science of mind does not solely involve learning about such issues as how we know,… — Sean O Nuallain Copy Share Image
“ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
