“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other… — David M. Kelley Copy Share Image
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction. — Lynn Hershman Leeson Copy Share Image
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program. — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without… — Alfred Cobban Copy Share Image
“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“In a study of adult self-esteem, researchers found that people who are happy with themselves take defeat and explain it away, treating… — David Niven Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already. — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“When performed correctly, there is little difference between science and magic.” — Shawn Stern Copy Share Image
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“The report made a science fiction-like case that the president was within his constitutional rights to reinterpret congressional legislation to conform more… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given… — William James Copy Share Image
“Buddha said , “All under another’s control is suffering, all under one’s own authority is pleasing; what’s shared is stressful for both… — Dr. Shitalkumar R. Sukhdeve Copy Share Image
Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor.… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image