We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science. — Joanne Nova Copy Share Image
I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.” — Michael E Emmering Copy Share Image
[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.' — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“These emotional cues were distracting. I was used to arguing with scientists who would explain with perfectly bland faces why you were… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means,… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick.… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The students of biodiversity, the ones we most need in science today, have an enormous task ahead of molecular biology and the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image