I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Everything is more whole in the end when you forgo destruction and instead repair, he reasoned. But some things can’t be repaired.… — Megan Tennant Copy Share Image
“El reduccionismo no parece conceder un respeto suficiente a la complejidad del universo. A algunos se les antoja como un híbrido curioso… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
Science could never get you to make alcohol and tobacco legal and marijuana illegal. Only racism can do that. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
“Legally, however, the Rockefeller Foundation, the granddaddy of all private foundations, was at first limited to promoting only education, science, and religion.… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is,… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The chapters written by the natural scientists were broadly consistent with what other natural scientists had already said. No one challenged the… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada,… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
“Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound; And through… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize… — Nicolas Lemery Copy Share Image
Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
