“Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That… — Jad Abumrad Copy Share Image
“Now, Dr. Anderson, you've been telling us how the world began and how brilliant it was of all the scientists to be… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak Copy Share Image
He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Universal Source and universal potential are always beyond space and time and do not abide by human scientific laws. Still, this does… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“God is a concept more than anything else. The idea of God or about God, as it functions in religions, doesn’t deal… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
And knife making is as much art as science, as far as I'm concerned: Forging metals from an old farm tool into… — Brad Leone Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that orthopedic science provides beautiful false noses for people who have lost their noses naturally or as a result of… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
“When the science speaks, religion must keep quiet! When the master speaks, hold your tongue, don’t make a noise!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“November 2014, focus on science communications full-time. I now work for a cancer charity, “translating” science into English for fundraising teams. My… — Sam Maggs Copy Share Image
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream. — George Iles Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image