In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.” — David L Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Could error arise from a true demonstration, and falsehood proceed from duly verified authority? In no domain could this easily happen, and… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“Popper rightly believed that the public-not just scientists or philosophers-needs to understand and appreciate that distinction, because science is too powerful and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My older brother played professionally in Europe. My other older brother went to UConn on scholarship, finished his education in political science,… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon that Powell stumbled onto has a name: shifting baselines syndrome... Every generation of scientist accepts the oceans as it inherits… — Jon Mooallem Copy Share Image
When policymakers, financiers and scientists describe the world decades from now, in the throes of climatic changes that we now only model,… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
“For centuries oatsΔ were used as animal food. When evidence-based science researched oats and found that they help reduce cholesterol in humans… — Ruby Parker Puckett Copy Share Image
I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“The nice thing about poetry is that you’re always stretching the definitions of words. Lawyers and scientists and scholars of one sort… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My experience in science has always been that the future always exceeds what we believe is possible. I suspect that we will… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“I can swallow an "F" on the science fair project if that happens. I'm proud of my machine and it's more important… — Richard Roberts Copy Share Image
There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material. — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an… — Gza Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
“phenomenon has reappeared in a more troubling form with the holy alliance between the believers and what they can borrow or steal… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“The desert seems vast, even endless. And yet scientists tell us that somewhere, even now, there is snow.” — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“researchers (with Ph.D.’s). “It turns out that if you get dementia, you’ll get it later, but you’ll also progress a little bit… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“I became well known for researching what the corporate government did not want researched.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
