Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
“All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm you.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
“I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly. Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the… — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
“The upshot is a hermeneutics of suspicion; if someone tells you that he or she has converted to unbelief because of science,… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Beverly once read a science magazine article about bioluminescence, the natural glow emitted by organisms like fireflies and jellyfish, but she knows… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for… — Stephen W. Hawking Copy Share Image
“According to Kant, the motto of this new era, which came to be known as the Enlightenment, was “Dare to know!”—Sapere aude!… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson 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
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Scientists seem to say something like this: The value of science is beyond question. That means that we have to minimize its… — Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science Copy Share Image
“ Napoleon , when hearing about Laplace 's latest book, said, ' M. Laplace , they tell me you have written this… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image