It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. — George Porter Copy Share Image
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with… — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Having someone in your class call you fat, ugly, too tall and so on, you start to think all those things about… — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting'… — Nadia Abu El Haj Copy Share Image
So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
