“Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
“Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious… — Christopher Knight & Alan Butler Copy Share Image
We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other… — Karl Barry Sharpless Copy Share Image
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“The Western scientific community, and actually all of us, are in a difficult spot, because in order to maintain our current mode… — Cleve Backster Copy Share Image
I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to… — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones,… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Chocolate milk has everything I need in a drink: the carbs, the protein, and the electrolytes. It's even backed by science, showing… — Al Horford Copy Share Image
“Our cognitive sciences are themselves suffering from an agnosia essentially similar to Dr P.’s. Dr P. may therefore serve as a warning… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
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“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Can you half believe something? No, that wasn't quite right. This was quantum mechanics. The better question: can you both believe in… — Ted Kosmatka Copy Share Image
There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant… — William James Copy Share Image
“If Erasmus Desiderius could talk about the current state of affairs, he would say that the secular scientific civilization is governed by… — Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science Copy Share Image
![“Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.” quote by Christopher Knight & Alan Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/christopher-knight-alan-butler_bias_science-is-about-recognizing-patterns-ev_2794263.jpg)
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