Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but they are drawn tentatively.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected… — William Prout Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line....… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Sin says, "Do you have a relationship with God, the gods, or a emulate something in the fashion of a god (nature,… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
“One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“If existance of something cannot be proved scientifically, it only means that science is not equipped to prove it right now.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image