Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.” — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry,… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“To say that science is the measure of all true knowledge is not a scientific truth but a philosophic claim about science.… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Researchers have known for some time now that the cornerstone of all degenerative conditions, including brain disorders, is inflammation. But what they… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,… — David Gross Copy Share Image
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
“Mark Rosewater wrote: Science fiction, at is core, is about exploring what if. It is literature investigating humanity’s potential. Fantasy, at its… — James M. Corkill Copy Share Image
I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The problem is that once science has reduced a complex phenomenon to a couple of variables, however important they may be, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day. — Jawed Karim Copy Share Image
Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses. — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious,… — Henri Copy Share Image
Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image