My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research. — David Willetts Copy Share Image
People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty. — John Owen Copy Share Image
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot,… — John Mellor Copy Share Image
One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose… — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’ — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
“Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Conversely, high-reactive children may be more likely to develop into artists and writers and scientists and thinkers because their aversion to novelty… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that… — Bengt I. Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Do you know how many great writers, musicians, artists, scientists, inventors, theologians, and statesmen have died poor? All of them! You can't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.” — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“a way of eating that merges fresh food with ancient food wisdom and the latest science.” — Deborah Kesten Copy Share Image
“They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Be an influencer to avoid being influenced that will measure your strength.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.” — Timothy Ferris Copy Share Image
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. — John Tuzo Wilson Copy Share Image
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy... — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image