To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival… — David Helvarg Copy Share Image
“The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid” — Bonnie Gaunt Copy Share Image
“The fine-structure constant is ubiquitous throughout physics. I’ve already noted its connection to the electromagnetic interaction. In atomic physics, the binding energy,… — Gerald Gabrielse Copy Share Image
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads… — Bill Nye 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
If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They… — Mark Booth Jonathan Black Copy Share Image
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
