Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Scientists say that 2 degrees is the furthest we can push the planet before it turns on us. Much like a sorority… — Desi Lydic Copy Share Image
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Safe and effective” should not just be a slogan to promote vaccines. These words should represent truth after scientific proof has been… — Stephen Heartland Copy Share Image
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of… — Maurice Kendall Copy Share Image
One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
“What do scientists mean when they talk of a virus? This is not quite so elementary as some people might believe. In… — Frank Ryan Copy Share Image
“Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at… — Othniel Charles Marsh Copy Share Image
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group--bacteria, mice, people--and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The first scientist to contemplate the significance of places where things apparently cease to exist or become infinite ('singularities' that we would… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
There is minimal scientific evidence to suggest the Covid-19 virus is transmitted on football pitches in fresh air, so let's not play… — Robbie Savage Copy Share Image
“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings? — William Huggins Copy Share Image
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical… — Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker Copy Share Image
As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why. J: Oh, yes, it would be… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's… — Uberto Crescenti Copy Share Image
A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
“Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are to form a… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened.… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry to tell you that another Dani was found wandering around the time station in our building, confused and disoriented.” — Steven Decker Copy Share Image