“As a scientist, I know that predicting outcomes is based as much on probability as on cause and effect. It isn’t always… — Leland Melvin Copy Share Image
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right.… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
“First time someone broke my heart, I dropped out of engineering and emerged as the Monk Scientist. Second time when I lost… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts Copy Share Image
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain… — William James Copy Share Image
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place… — David Hillis Copy Share Image
“ Solution #1. ELIMINATE PAYOFFS IN CLINICS TO PROMOTE VACCINATIONS. It should be illegal for doctors to accept bonuses or other incentives… — stephen heartland Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you… — Seymour Cray Copy Share Image
