ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door. — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it’s not what’s in your pack that separates… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing,… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“When Maxwell’s equations didn’t pick out any aether or any physical medium whatsoever for light it was because there is no physical… — Dr. Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
“The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
“Scientists estimate that it took a thousand years for an inch of topsoil to accumulate on the arid high plains. It was… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“Of all the modern social sciences, anthropology is the one historically most closely tied to colonialism, since it was often the case… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it:… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists,… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mental framework that makes science enjoyable is accessible to everyone. It involves curiosity, careful observation, a disciplined way of recording events,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value. — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science. — Melinda M Marshall Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior. — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. — Irving R. Levine Copy Share Image
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer Copy Share Image
“Yet the connection between science and empire went much deeper.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
