Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest… — Joshua Marston Copy Share Image
“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them:… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to… — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Langdon joined her at the book, peering down at the text. Now that he knew the line, he was able to make… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
“I have a disdain,” he says, “for complicated fancy equipment because it takes a lot of time to learn how to use,… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Its easy to research on the Internet, but its also easy to get the wrong answers. Not all that you read on… — Jock Zonfrillo Copy Share Image
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“A trial is not a science fair, but rather a magic show. A show based on appearances and logical fallacies and sleight… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“The tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a… — Hermann Nothnagel Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and… — Leonard Wibberley Copy Share Image
Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
