If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
“Just as the victorious United States appropriated the Third Reich’s discoveries in rocket science and the exploration of outer space, the Nazi… — Norman Ohler Copy Share Image
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why.… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
I really like the last three Luna records a whole lot, especially 'Penthouse.' I think of all the records I've done, that's… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“The scientific world view works so well, explains so much and resonates so harmoniously with the most advanced parts of our brains… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A simple intuition, a single observation, can open vistas of unimagined potential. Once caught in the web of an idea, the researcher… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information;… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“so Enlightenment philosophers developed a new form of theism, based entirely on reason and Newtonian science, which they called Deism.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I remember starting 'Game of Thrones,' everyone said 'you have to watch it,' but I thought 'it's science fiction, it's not real,… — Virgil van Dijk Copy Share Image
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“He realized the lesson was that science can take medicine only so far. Then it is helped tremendously if there is faith… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
It is so stimulating for young children to hear someone who does science talking about it. It can be so exciting and… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing… — George Johnson Copy Share Image