[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking. — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It was to Greece that the Romans first owed their knowledge of healing, and of art and science generally, but at no… — James Elliott Copy Share Image
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and… — Ron Peterson Copy Share Image
So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process. — Kitty Ferguson Copy Share Image
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“We know today the calcium from plants can provide protection from fractures, while calcium derived from dairy products increases fracture risk. This… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour,… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there—his wit, his skeptical mien,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The… — Malcolm Campbell Copy Share Image
“Social scientists generally agree that students’ families (especially family income, which determines advantages and opportunity) have an even bigger impact on student… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists. — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those… — David Lee Copy Share Image
Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
“What Trixie wanted, most of all, what she couldn't have - to go back to being the kind of girl who worried… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Knock, knock… Who’s there?… Little endorphin… Little endorphin who?… Little endorphin Annie.” And then the endorphins laugh, and then you laugh. See?… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so… — Dileesh Pothan Copy Share Image
We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image