I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue… — David Deming Copy Share Image
“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“When air becomes breath, and cells become sentient, Words become poetry, and facts become science.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“One may take the line that metaphorical devices are inevitable in the early stages of any science and that although we may… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“No field of human excellence can progress without a genuine humane conscience driving it in the right direction.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“I did not write this work merely with the aim of setting the exegetical record straight. My larger target is those contemporaries… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“At a cellular level of the human mind, Islamophobia is not really a matter of social stigma, rather it is a natural… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do… — John Gray Copy Share Image
Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
