The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine." — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality. — Robert A. Baker Copy Share Image
In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole… — George Polya Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It’s impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. — Alan Valentine Copy Share Image
You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science. — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.” — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas. — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Engineer/Scientist can never earn more than a business man, no matter what ever they do. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Theory in any branch of science entails a risk of detachment from reality” — Quammen, David Copy Share Image
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