“Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.” — Theodore Von Karman Copy Share Image
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality. — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the… — Luis Marques Copy Share Image
My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for… — Rudolph Valentino Copy Share Image
Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists… — Jeremy Bernstein Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you… — Francois Englert Copy Share Image
“D. A., and Kahneman, D. (1998). Does living in California make people happy?: A focusing illusion in judgments of life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 9: 340–46.” — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“... to undertake a gargantuan task: calculate the value of all the services provided by all the ecosystems, from the forest to… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless… — A.V. Hill Copy Share Image
There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“The theologian Paul Tillich once observed that among scientists only physicists seem capable of using the word "God" without embarrassment. Whatever one's… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“In other words, the science itself makes clear that hormones, enzymes, and growth factors regulate our fat tissue, just as they do… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is… — Nils Bohlin Copy Share Image
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
“Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image