“In a nutshell, the universe is 4% visible, 23% undetectable and 73% unimaginable. Welcome to the cosmos, full of mass you can… — Tim Radford Copy Share Image
If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“TRUTH: And yet no scientist today would debate that a single germ could wipe out all human life on the planet. Why… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air.… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without… — Frederick Lewis Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value." This unconditional will to truth—what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Science doesn’t yet know for certain why a universe ever managed to begin, or why it began so highly ordered, scientists just… — Gevin Giorbran Copy Share Image
We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
“If science depended on rhetoric and polls, we would still be burning objects with phlogiston and navigating with geocentric maps. [Criticizing Richard… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It's better to use science to apply science than to use common sense to apply a great idea.” — Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre Copy Share Image
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism,… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. — William James Copy Share Image
To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048,… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The neatest thing about research and science is we don't necessarily know what's going to come down the pike. We think we… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“And eventually, maybe millions of years from now, life might evolve to a point where living beings somewhere will discover how to… — Pol Bard Copy Share Image