“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“The problem was one Yerushalmy and Hilleboe were all too aware of, and one that continues to pollute science more than half… — Denise Minger Copy Share Image
Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. …… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you realize this, but there are some researchers - doctors - who are giving this kind of drug… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depictit as involving a search for truth only about the empiricalworld, about what… — Bas Van Fraassen 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
Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our… — Subodh Gupta Copy Share Image
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
