But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in… — Jeffrey Lang Copy Share Image
I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works. — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“One could inflict abuses on ethnic and other minorities in the name of science and for the good of society and get… — David Lagercrantz Copy Share Image
Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical and… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Well, I guess [2001: A Space Odyssey] legitimized [science fiction], particularly for people who looked down on science fiction; you know, the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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