Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can… — Graham Kendall Copy Share Image
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
“Scientists used to think the brain reached maturity around the age of 25 years and then deteriorated. Now we know it’s much… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.” — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's,… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really… — Amy Hardie Copy Share Image
Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Being on the moon is about harnessing science and technology. Waveless waterbeds are about harnessing nature and that, by definition, is not… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream. — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained by a number of factors… — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I believe that the Big-Bang Theory and the Evolution Theory, as well as Einstein’s Special Relativity Theory which does not allow for… — Dr. Takaaki Musha Copy Share Image
In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
“The fields of science are full of crop circles that can't yet be explained by scientific means.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist Robert W. Wood was asked to respond to a toast ...… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove… — Anthony Head Copy Share Image
“TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this… — Plato Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
![“For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during…” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ea/tycho-brahe-26422_accurate_for-those-observations-that-i-made-in-le_593536.jpg)
![“Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance…” quote by Charles Francis Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb0/charles-francis-richter-15733_broadcasting_magnitude-may-be-compared-to-the-power-o_594188.jpg)
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![“[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be…” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba0/plato-103_difficult_not-enough-is-known-about-solid-geometry_597380.jpg)
