Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science… This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at… — Eileen Claussen Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to… — David Ramsey Copy Share Image
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Divorce is just about change, you know. It's God saying, You need a change. And I'm going to make it so your… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do… — Daylle Deanna Schwartz Copy Share Image
Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans Copy Share Image