Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200.… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We, hijras, are not hypocrites. We live our sexuality openly, being truthful to our souls and our bodies. Science and doctors assigned… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Science could potentially do a better job explaining the meaning of life if scientists devise experiments that can weed out the best… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Separation of function is not to be despised, but neither should it be exalted. Separation is not an unbreakable law, but a… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a… — Frank Close Copy Share Image
The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the… — Nehemiah Grew Copy Share Image
I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
“I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games,… — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
“Myths continue to dominate humankind, and science only makes these myths stronger. Instead of destroying the intersubjective reality, science will enable it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.” — Jane Borodale Copy Share Image
The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence… — Adam Osborne Copy Share Image
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image