“the world becomes a better place only through the willful actions of living men, not from the furthering of scientific knowledge” — S.L. Dunn Copy Share Image
The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun Copy Share Image
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed by the strongest evidence that we have,… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge.… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“He had steeled himself just a little for the Jump through hyper-space, a phenomenon one did not experience in simple interplanetary trips.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, once created, a cultural resource generates public debates whose forms, tones, and terms differ considerably from those used by scientists involved… — Nikolai Krementsov Copy Share Image
“ Technicians are triply invisible. First, they have traditionally been invisible to historians and sociologists of science. . . . Second, they have… — Clifford D. Conner Copy Share Image
“It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“For such people, the ruling gods are progress, science, and development. They imagine that we know so much more about the world… — William C. Chittick Copy Share Image
“I write these words in May of 2011, the week after a huge outbreak of tornadoes killed hundreds across the American South;… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes Copy Share Image
I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image