All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science;” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“...[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse… — Socrates Copy Share Image
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.” — Beth Harbison Copy Share Image
I suppose the real problem is if science becomes proprietary. If we start designing our children to have the edge, you will… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is… — Klaus Kleinfeld Copy Share Image
What people fail to realize is that without science the world would not exist — Curie Marie Copy Share Image
“...our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too… — Valentino Braitenberg Copy Share Image
“You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Ask yourself your own questions and go after what might answer them. Before life, you must maintain a philosophical and scientific stance.… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Based on their calculations, scientists concluded that within the area they found to have elevated pollution from the airport, automobiles contributed less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My secret weapon is my wife. She's the best judge. She's a scientist and a natural reader. We've developed a detailed code… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“For scientific convenience, the atmosphere is divided into four unequal layers: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and ionosphere (now often called the thermosphere).” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption—that an alien race would… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“Visions are projections of one's fundamental beliefs and assumptions about human nature, technology, economics, science, politics, art, ethics, and the like. A… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the… — Moss Cass Copy Share Image
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The researchers noted that their most important finding may be that cholesterol consumption was a strong predictor of cirrhosis and liver cancer.… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image