During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes… — Lorenz Oken Copy Share Image
I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and… — Donald Griffin Copy Share Image
I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is… — James McCarthy Copy Share Image
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
“The drive of his own nature to keep developing prevents him from believing that anything is final and complete, yet everything he… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“1.Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms and life is data processing. 2.Intelligence is decoupling from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
“Straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from physics to fiction, simply does not exist. Linearity is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
“Nelson-Rees had since been hired by the National Cancer Institute to help stop the contamination problem. He would become known as a… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive,… — Jim Trombetta Copy Share Image
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I don't know everything I feel, but I do know this. You mustn't ever want anyone but me, Big Science. If you… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis “has the shape of a boomerang.” — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
“As far as history and science are concerned, I'm pretty sure I can wing it. Turns out I learned more in Internet… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of… — Georges Lemaitre Copy Share Image
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life,… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, the churchgoer has been influenced by the secular world that opposes the reality of the biblical Flood. Many… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I have decided not to give interviews and not to hold conversations with journalists who deal with the political activity of my… — Joachim Sauer Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image