In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that most problems aren’t rocket science, but when they are rocket science, you should ask a rocket scientist.” — Scott Kelly Copy Share Image
“The discovery of an interaction among the four hemes made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent… — Michael Innes Copy Share Image
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded;… — Grove Karl Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out it was an… — Alan J. Perlis Copy Share Image
“Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.” — Dan Riskin Copy Share Image
“Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds… — William Styron Copy Share Image
To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
