The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Each pleasure we feel is a pleasure less; each day a stroke on a calendar. What we will not accept is that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
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“Aren’t you at all curious about your past?” Rhys asked. “No, my present is who I am. Your identity is whoever you… — Jeffrey Perren Copy Share Image
Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes. { Advising his… — Philipp von Jolly Copy Share Image
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Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions… — Robert S. Siegler Copy Share Image
We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe. Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
“God is a pure mathematician!' declared British astronomer Sir James Jeans. The physical Universe does seem to be organised around elegant mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of,… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
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In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
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“For Newton and the scientists of his time, God had set up the universe and set it in motion. Newton's laws simply… — Evan Harris Walker Copy Share Image
“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of… — Pierre Simon de Laplace Copy Share Image
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I finished my degree I became a physics and maths teacher. And worked in the international school in Brussels, because like… — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
“In an infinite universe, all things are possible -- within physical limits, that is -- and any book that can be written… — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our… — David Christian Copy Share Image
In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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When I first went to college, I went into physics, and my goal was to help perfect nuclear fusion so I could… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“Chemistry, for me, had stopped being such a source. It led to the heart of Matter, and Matter was our ally precisely… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image