“When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Results of one's views of the process with the science than the usual good value but of course that did not prove… — Achmad Tim Bukhari Copy Share Image
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — L. Harrison Matthews Copy Share Image
Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just… — Frank Daniels III Copy Share Image
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Had they both become unwilling participants in some sort of mad scientist’s chemistry experiment to combine Man A with Woman B to… — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
“The second jet, however, brought the promise of a third and a fourth. Here was a pattern. Jets are falling out of… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Terence McKenna once famously said that science asks “Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.” That miracle is the… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“[Concerning] phosphorescent bodies, and in particular to uranium salts whose phosphorescence has a very brief duration. With the double sulfate of uranium… — Antoine Henri Becquerel Copy Share Image
The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which… — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Suppose there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing… — Hideki Yukawa Copy Share Image
“researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies; spent on a whole food like carrots, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
“To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“NASA are idiots. They want to send canned meat to Mars!” Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“It can’t be stressed enough that science produces nothing but hypotheses, models, simulations and approximations. There is nothing true about it. It… — Mike Hockney Copy Share Image
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. — John Prine Copy Share Image
That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present… — Jean Sylvain Bailly Copy Share Image
“The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are a good example of what is wrong with science.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image