I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton. (Answer given by a pupil to a question on atomic theory, as… — Henry Enfield Roscoe Copy Share Image
“The “principle of charity” and the “science of compassion” are both crucial to any attempt to understand discourse and ideas that initially… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
I started to teach social science for the sixth grade. I wasn't a teacher, but I had enough college lessons. I was… — Ed ONeill Copy Share Image
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is so irresponsible for people in the ‘I want to change the course of my society’ community to not do the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that,… — Taylor Wilson Copy Share Image
Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on,… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's… — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The very attributes that rendered me a nuisance to all of my previous teachers—my inability to let things go coupled with my… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“million pieces of glass..more finer..upto the verge of disappearness..den a new reality ..life so called time travel through wormhole” — Sunil Sharma Copy Share Image
The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
I just feel like my audience is interested in anything that I do. Dare I say, even when I was making my… — Bretman Rock Copy Share Image
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if… — William DeVries Copy Share Image
“It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors. — Judith Faulkner Copy Share Image
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
“That's the trouble with science. Always upending itself. Ruining perfect systems for the little inconvenience of them being wrong.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
