“Professor J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. A pioneering and broad-ranging thinker, he developed a… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, poked at the ink in his inkwell. There was ice in it. "Don't you even have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“This is our struggle: to re-bury the coal and slow the flow of petroleum from the earth," she counted them off from… — Robert Stikmanz Copy Share Image
Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“As science advanced in the late nineteenth century, it increasingly excluded appeals to divine action or divine ideas as a way of… — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I want to get young girls excited in science, tech, engineering mathematics, art, design - and how they come together. We've got… — Kirsty Duncan Copy Share Image
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations'… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“When asked to "define the difference between fantasy and science fiction," I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Rocket Fever Grips Nation's Teenagers' cheers on enthusiastic newsreel, reflecting the nation's sudden reversal in attitude following the successful launch of Explorer-I… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
“We do science because we want to understand the truth. It is a constant, ongoing pursuit to understand our own biology so… — Alice Callahan Copy Share Image
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or… — Joseph Prestwich Copy Share Image
“In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time,… — Norman Cota Copy Share Image
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the… — Cole J. Davis Copy Share Image
I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“How often have we turned on the television and heard the host say, “Tonight we will be talking about faith versus science.… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
“If we had always thought from a so-called practical angle – we would’ve never had anything new in this world. We would’ve… — Ravindra Shukla Copy Share Image
“Any initial oceans before the Flood were likely much more shallow with a few deep areas. Keep in mind that about 95… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part… — Virpi Hameen-Anttila Copy Share Image
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“It is often said that there are very few places left on earth that have yet to be discovered. But those who… — Mark Miodownik Copy Share Image
Through our government's updated science, technology and innovation strategy, we are making the record investments necessary to push the boundaries of knowledge,… — Ed Holder Copy Share Image
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