Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in… — Ernest Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive;… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true… — Brad Linaweaver Copy Share Image
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Science is limited only to the physical (physiology) and mental (psychology) planes, but mysticism even examine the spiritual plane. At the same… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
“Many humanists and artists recoil from the proposition that cultural evolution has hitherto been shaped by unconscious impersonal forces. The determined nature… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“I am what happens when a monk scientist goes full-on godmode to establish a planetary, integrated, anti-racist, anti-phobic, anti-misogynist, anti-colonial, anti-military, anti-nationalist… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
According to a new study, the marijuana in Colorado is almost twice as strong as it was 20 years ago. Of course,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [ The Science of Second-Guessing… — Stephen W. Hawking Copy Share Image
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
“Drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, … at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is… — T.Z. Lavine Copy Share Image
“There is a collision course between the greed and rationalizations of the West and the force of nature; science and the planet… — Eric Mann Copy Share Image
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Present-day science, conventional medicine, and the mindset of 'better living through chemistry' have delivered their results, and they are less an excellent.… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image