“The world of things entered your infant mind To populate that crystal cabinet. Within its walls the strangest partners met, And things… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in… — John Gaver Copy Share Image
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain… — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The only way you are going to die and wake up someplace else is with science, not wishful thinking.” — Victor YatesCrayne Copy Share Image
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“In science, an observer states his results along with the “probable error”; but who ever heard of a theologian or a politician… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“Thank you father, thank you. I know you watched me from above and protected me. I promise I shall serve the Magnarian… — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality. — Robert A. Baker Copy Share Image
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
“It's better to have nothing and have everything than if you have everything with nothing” — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Science and religion stand watch over different aspects of all our major flashpoints. May they do so in peace and reinforcement--and not… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Another growing genre of film, science fiction, also tried to play on anti-Communist emotions during and after the war. Following such films… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages...” — Charles Leadbeater Copy Share Image
My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“The difference between theism and new atheist science is the difference between mystery and certainty. Certainty is a relic, an atavism, a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
“I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.” — Jesús Zamora-Bonilla Copy Share Image
The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...… — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“You shouldn’t make jokes about these things,” she said. “Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know.” “It’s got all the best… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
“Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than… — Marcia Conner Copy Share Image
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image