“Social scientists estimate that 15 to 30 percent, or, "[a]s many as 600,000 to 1.2 million slaves" in antebellum America were Muslims.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers,… — Nicole Scherzinger Copy Share Image
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“It appears that the probabilistic sciences of psychology and medicine teach their students to apply statistical and methodological rules to both scientific… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“You are one of the unfortunate ones whose body decays rapidly in the face of radiation poisoning. You hang your head over… — A.J. Lauer Copy Share Image
“I’m interested in [meteorology], but I’m more interested in gross misappropriations of the authoritative language of science. It feels rife with clarity,… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“We would kiss slowly, like scientists who analyzed the chemistry of passion, the electricity of desperation, the heat of loneliness, the sudden… — Nikolai Grozni Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We believe that information is an enlightening agent, but I can assure you it is not. We consume information, but we can’t… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image