The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds "jiva" (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with "ajiva" (the lifeless, material aspect… — Mark X Copy Share Image
There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and… — Steven M. Greer Copy Share Image
There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
I was never exposed as a kid to any real science. I read the occasional popular science book, and I loved Mechanics… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“There is only one universal language, which is the language of numbers and proportions that are so striking and stunningly built into… — Willem Witteveen Copy Share Image
“So why do it?,’ he challenged. ‘Why return to biological when a quantum existence can empower you to overcome general relativity and… — Trevor Barton Copy Share Image
The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)."… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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“In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle:… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
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“Certain macroscopic objects directly display quantum mechanical effects. Superconductors and neutron stars-the latter behaving like atomic nuclei with a six-mile diameter-are macroscopic… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
“It’s more like every electron in every atom in the universe paused, breathed in deeply, assessed the situation, and then reversed its… — Lydia Netzer Copy Share Image
“I think of the universe as an engine. Perhaps we are a very small, yet very important part of this engine. What… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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