I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place,… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Science is the key to our future, and if you dont believe in science, then youre holding everybody back. And its fine… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“I was led to the conclusion that at the most extreme dilutions all salts would consist of simple conducting molecules. But the… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a… — Leon Croizat Copy Share Image
“If the human mind can understand the universe, it means the human mind is fundamentally of the same order as the divine… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
“This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“We will never understand our world until we have come to terms with its future: it is the age in which we… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea we would put Americans' economy in jeopardy based on… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image