In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If you have children, you cannot feed them forever with flags for breakfast and cartridges for lunch. You need something more substantial.… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity,… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose. — Paul G 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
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
“If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
“...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.” — Brittany Hawes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“It behoves us always to remember that in physics it has taken great men to discover simple things. . . . How far even then… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not… — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
