“But what are facts, really, except things we’ve already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.” — Kathryn Reiss Copy Share Image
If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
“Science is like a big sudoku puzzle, when you find a new number it helps you figure out a new one until… — Eve Halimi Copy Share Image
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
When I grew up, scientists were anti-social people who worked in basements and wore coats and worked with bunson burners, and now… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
“You're going to see a lot of it. People getting ahead unfairly because of the category into which they were born: male or white… — Sandhya Menon Copy Share Image
“You don’t sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet.” Rey smiled, “Can I be both?” But you’d rather be a… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
