If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“ Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes. Guessing before… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No,… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to… — K. Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
“Margaret's favorite kind of news story is - would anyone believe this? - the weather. The dull, the prosaic, the default I-have-nothing-else-to-talk-about-so-let's-talk-about-the-weather… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about 'why' questions. When we ask, 'Why?' we usually mean 'How?' If we can… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“If parents start to fear that monsters may have been let loose in their children's bedrooms, it may be because their children… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.” — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Science never destroys wonder, it only shifts it higher and deeper” — J. Arthur Thompson Copy Share Image
“It is a science fact that some animals do dream. It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. — Edmund Beecher Wilson Copy Share Image
Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is. — Nicola Cabibbo Copy Share Image
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Real science is recognizing an outcome, not always about reinforcing your theory.” — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint. — Janadas Devan Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“science never cheered up anyone. the human situation is just too awful.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image