Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. — Mark Plotkin Copy Share Image
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Lest anyone doubt that sickness behavior is a defense against pathogens, scientists can induce it without exposing animals to a single germ.… — Kathleen McAuliffe Copy Share Image
But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty. — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is… — John Astin Copy Share Image
Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Over time, researchers who look at the adolescent brain have therefore alighted on a variety of metaphors and analogies to describe their… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.' — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Americans tend to use "nation" as a synonym for "country." But political scientists and historians, as well as many Europeans, tend to… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Distinguishing between correlation and causation is critical to our understanding of the biology and conservation of monarchs and milkweeds. Turning back to… — Anurag Agrawal Copy Share Image
