Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to. — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course,… — Hansika Motwani Copy Share Image
The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.” — Richard Layard Copy Share Image
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character. — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science. — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the… — Charles Pierce Copy Share Image
“I have a deep thought for you. Science fiction is just beginning to catch up with the Old Testament. See artificial nitrates… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
That intellectuals, including academics, would become a "new class" of technocrats, claiming the name of science while cooperating with the powerful, was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“Food animals also get antibiotics for “growth promotion,” a metabolically mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one… — Vannoccio Biringuccio Copy Share Image
One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image