Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start… — Avis Williams Copy Share Image
When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director… — Hunter Lovins Copy Share Image
Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
“Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called… — Michael Quinion Copy Share Image
There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof.… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
“Truly to realize the ambitions of a science of mind does not solely involve learning about such issues as how we know,… — Sean O Nuallain Copy Share Image
“ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“But underneath all this reasonable talk, this scientific speculating, no white Afrikaner could quite put down the way it felt…Something sinister was… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of… — John Jeremiah Bigsby Copy Share Image
I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems. — Myron Tribus Copy Share Image
I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense,… — Harley Pasternak Copy Share Image
A vote to leave would be a leap into the dark that would put our status as a science superpower at risk.… — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“I've never understood the phrase they have chemistry before now. After all, everything is chemistry. Everything is combination and reaction. The atoms… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
It's easy to get stuck in a rut when you're writing in one genre for too long. So, when you've been writing… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“Claiming sole credit for scientific discovery is like claiming sole credit for a movie. Just like you and everyone involved, I played… — Lashon Byrd Copy Share Image
“Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't… — Spencer Silver Copy Share Image
“There is no known scientific way of predicting earthquakes. The most reliable method is to count the number of missing cats in… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
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