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
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
When the other girls had physical or practical classes like PE, drama or science, I would spend the lessons in the library,… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be… — Adam Miller Copy Share Image
Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“We also have to be particularly wary of imaginative thought processes for we can very easily create things and ideas in our… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler 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
“E. A. Burtt argued that the foundations of science were often theological.” — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.” — Theodore Von Karman Copy Share Image
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“science fiction is something that could happen—but usually you wouldn’t want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn’t happen—though often you only… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be… — Plato Copy Share Image