The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase,… — Jackson Burnett Copy Share Image
To take the best decisions, in you must concede all the time necessary to reflect calmly. Evaluate every single aspect of the… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“ Sì perché l'autorità dell'opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le… — Galileo Galilei 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
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I believe our platform at WTT is different than tournament tennis. What we are selling is access. You have the ability to… — Ilana Kloss Copy Share Image
In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend"… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a… — Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Copy Share Image
In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction… — Debra Moffitt Copy Share Image
How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ?… — David Duval Copy Share Image
The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation… — Derek Barton Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it… — Thiruman Archunan Copy Share Image
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image