Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout… — Self Copy Share Image
“A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In the discovery of secret things, and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one… — Charles Manning Child Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the… — Jon Elster Copy Share Image
“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.” — E.J.H. Corner Copy Share Image
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“While some mainstream medical professionals continue to insist that NCGS doesn’t exist, scientists have validated it as a distinct clinical condition. In… — Chris Kresser Copy Share Image
I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image