“It is less than five hundred years since an entire half of the world was discovered. It is less than two hundred… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy:… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
“There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Evolution is messy. Oftentimes our brains evolve more quickly than our capacity to love. Science has unlocked many mysteries of the universe… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to… — David Stras Copy Share Image
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Ellington would be growing up in a culture saturated with an idea you might call the cognitive hypothesis: the belief... that success… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science… — David Milch Copy Share Image
'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most… — Marcel Alexandre Bertrand Copy Share Image
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“ Dewar 's rule in his laboratory was as absolute as that of a Pharaoh, and he showed deference to no one… — Kurt Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
“Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles;… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
“The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I enjoy the act of research. I'm researching as a means to an end, but I literally just enjoy reading about how… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“You’re taking a drink from a stranger, dude.” I say. “I could be a mad scientist and put something inside your root… — Rea Lidde Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image