No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Homeopathy is the true and very advanced healing science much beyond the scope of current methods of chemical analysis and interpretation.” — Aditya Sardana Copy Share Image
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you… — David Cheriton Copy Share Image
I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of creation of the kind that the Abrahamic faiths profess is such that it encourages the expectation that there will… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“Of course the theologians fought the facts found by the geologists, the scientists, and sought to sustain the sacred Scriptures. They mistook… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination… — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
If you're in the ring with somebody that doesn't throw good punches, guess what. Don't have him throw any punches. You work… — Christian Cage Copy Share Image
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to… — Tom Duff Copy Share Image
“Colonisation is violence, and there are many ways to carry out that violence. In addition to military and administrative chiefs and a… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Copy Share Image
I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the… — Chien-Shiung Wu Copy Share Image
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas Copy Share Image
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“For many scientists, as Lyotard concedes, scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge there is, but if so, how then do… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
