C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I love scientists, they are unpredictable close reasoners.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman? — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that… — Luis Marques Copy Share Image
We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“ La pensée n'est qu'un écliar au milieu d'une longue nuit. Mais c'est cet éclair qui est tout. Thought is only a… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure… — Eduard Suess Copy Share Image
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the… — Wilhelm Korner Copy Share Image
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image