“Indeed, even Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and the other champions of the new scientific world view refuse to abandon liberalism. After dedicating… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Child prodigies usually pursue conforming achievement, following the well-worn paths to Carnegie Hall, the science Olympics, and chess championships. They succeed by… — Edify.me Copy Share Image
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse,… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.' — Gelindo Bordin Copy Share Image
Any woman can make herself beautiful. I see 'em do it every day in the studio... with make-up and hair styles and… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
“Scientists say that if the bombs drop again, no one will win because no one will survive. All life on Earth will… — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell… — John Green Copy Share Image
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency;… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of… — Francesca Da Rimini Copy Share Image
“At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth...… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined,… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use. — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
I have a science YouTube channel where I will sometimes use my engineering skills to build things such as the world's largest… — Mark Rober Copy Share Image
“Quantum computers won't solve humanity's problems, but they might calculate humanity's hardest calculations in hours instead of millennia.” — Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
“The man of science, whether he knows it or not (most often, obviously, he does know it), whether he wishes it or… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image