As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“This book is the distillation of nearly forty years of a scientist spending time in stores studying shoppers, with the last decade… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
I certainly know that the NDP and the Liberals talk about understanding climate science; they just haven't put forward anything that suggests… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
“The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists… — Jeremy Bernstein Copy Share Image
It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The laws of science say that positives repel each other. Yet, in life, to attract positives things, you need to start by… — Savannah Yates Copy Share Image
I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried. -Lunar planet” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light. — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I'm a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue… — David Deming Copy Share Image
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Science embodies the human desire to understand nature; technology couples that desire with the ambition to control nature.” — Siddhartha Muker Copy Share Image
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