I'm very lucky in that I was inspired by science fiction while I was a little kid, and I was interested in… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Researchers are learning that a change in mind-set has the power to alter neurochemistry. Belief and expectation—the key elements of hope—can block… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“How did his window crack the steering wheel?” Aiden asked at the same time. I sank down into the mattress, choosing to… — Carrie Butler Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The existence of a paradigm capable of supporting a normal science tradition is the characteristic that distinguishes science from non-science, according to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have… — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must. — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“ Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska , a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides… — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
“God created… light and dark, heaven and hell— science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created everything in… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against… — William James Copy Share Image
Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity. — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image