“He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.” — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
David Dhawan is the scientist of entertainment and has given me the opportunity over the last 20 years to work in several films. — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time,… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. — Elvin C. Stakman Copy Share Image
Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing. — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California's water. Scientists say the state is… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
How did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
I have to tell you with regards to global warming that that's something, which, you're right, the scientists haven't entirely resolved, but… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This… — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
You know, I'm an egg-heady scientist with a large beard and like Birkenstocks. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist. — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image