Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“A Scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it… — Gordon L. Glegg Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar’s book The Limits of Science: ‘I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed;… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others. — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
“If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image