Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air,… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Plastic debris in the ocean was thought to accumulate in big patches, mostly in subtropical gyres - big currents that converge in… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“It may be admitted that, as far as scientific knowledge is concerned, a body of suitably chosen experts may be in the… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion… — Marian Diamond Copy Share Image
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in science. Science is our defense against belief.” — J. Allan Hobson Copy Share Image
“I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator. — Frederick Mosteller Copy Share Image
“Whether you believe in God or are an atheist, you cannot deny that the empirical facts of science have nothing to do… — Carlton D. Pearson Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
I am no longer a scientist as I stopped in 2000. Science was quite a testing place to be as a working-class woman. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Copy Share Image
“Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier,… — Wilhelm Johannsen Copy Share Image
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“ En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l'expérience, if faut généraliser; c'est une nécessité qui s'impose à l'observateur le plus… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye,… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image