They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims… — Plato Copy Share Image
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which… — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
“That dizzying feeling of confusion, if (hopefully) followed by an epiphany of clarity, is the joy of science. If the reader is… — Brian Cox Jeff Forshaw Copy Share Image
“Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate… — Severus Snape Copy Share Image
“If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent… — Michael Innes Copy Share Image
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“I didn't crawl out from under a rock, you know." "I never thought you crawled out from under a rock. I thought… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
“Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks—the hammerhead, the bonnethead (also… — Karen Shanor Copy Share Image
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Countless other words such as honor, justice, morality, internationalism, democracy, science, and religion had simply ceased to exist.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Better admit that there was some truth both in science and religion; and if they must fight, let it be elsewhere than… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Not that I did not have any other skills, but I loved teaching students, sharing with them my knowledge in sciences, maths… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. — Democritus Copy Share Image