The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
“Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it… — EHA Introduced By Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance… By the elimination of… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
“Observation performed merely on its own is no more than what a machine can do—a surveillance camera, for instance. And imagination on… — Chris Raschka Copy Share Image
“Most of the low latticed windows were innocent of blinds, and to the lookers-in from outside, the inmates, gathered round the tea-table,… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity… — Andrea Savage Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the… — Henry Augustus Rowland Copy Share Image
“That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected… — William Prout Copy Share Image
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Bohr and Heisenberg assumed that after a measurement… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented… — Jerome Clark Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image