Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
“Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Can we be sure that they are incapable of the feelings or sentiments that are believed to place them on a lower… — William Longgood Copy Share Image
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“* The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ALBERT… — John Pinkney Copy Share Image
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean… — George Polya Copy Share Image
When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“I can swallow an "F" on the science fair project if that happens. I'm proud of my machine and it's more important… — Richard Roberts Copy Share Image
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had… — James W. Black Copy Share Image
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions. — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
“We scientists in particular must foster internationalism,” he said. “Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line I also recognized that spiritual growth is “inner” creativity, as contrasted to creativity in the arts and the… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still… — Michael Grimm Copy Share Image
The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
“The scientist’s skin crackled with excitement. “That’s the question that humans always ask—always, always. They want to scoop out the brains of… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image