To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along. — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn… — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival… — David Helvarg Copy Share Image
Maybe we should admit that our science is not as perfect as we would like to believe and that nature is ultimately… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
“it’s a metaphysical choice that science makes when it states that with the help of our concepts we can discover the ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from someone else's plate.” — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Science is a passing fable that sets us free when it arrives and when it leaves.” — Henry A. Murray Copy Share Image
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science. — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If Religion dies all we have left science to lead us...If science dies religion goes down with it~ J.H.G — Jonas Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be,… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
