“During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
In fast moving fields like cancer, where doctors tailor treatments based on evidence that's constantly evolving, two years can be an eternity… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“But academics (particularly in social science) seem to distrust each other; they live in petty obsessions, envy, and icy-cold hatreds, with small… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there. — Peggy Whitson Copy Share Image
The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the… — Fuller Albright Copy Share Image
“You can learn from brain scientists how to strengthen what's weak, make flexible what's rigid, and heal what might be broken.” — Jennifer Fraser Copy Share Image
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good… — Sylvain Neuvel Copy Share Image
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
“Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created. — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I was pretty serious about pursuing forensic science as a profession. In fact, I pursued an internship at the office of the… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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