You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying science at… — Theo Jansen Copy Share Image
“...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}” — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Pyscho-history dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
“Researchers generally agree that introverts and extroverts are born, not made.” — Anne Bogel Copy Share Image
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something… — Ma Huateng Copy Share Image
To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“What is intuitive to most parents was clarified by biological research: families matter. In the last two decades, scientists in the area… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting… — Walter Houser Brattain Copy Share Image
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“The quality of a wiener is determined not by its tastiness; but by length.” — I. C. Wiener Copy Share Image
I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem… — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
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