A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
If we rush too quickly to be scientific, to begin our experiment or catch our criminal as soon as possible, we risk… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally… — Frank Sulloway Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for… — James Callis Copy Share Image
“If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
“My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
“The difference between me and a scientist is a little word called “Science.” I don’t believe in it. Science has yet to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience. — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“It is accepted science that God himself gave the French the gift of their cuisine, and while he was downstairs, cursed the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Still influenced by his university days in the lab, Steffens hoped that his reporting would produce “facts of scientific value” on labor… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we… — William James Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —MARK… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Science has eliminated distance,” Melquíades proclaimed. “In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist. What I find interesting about my work is how, as a designer, I sit between science and the… — Suzanne Lee Copy Share Image
...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“This has to be the disease for you Now scientists call this disease Bromidrosis But us regular folks Who might wear tennis… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image