Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on… — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
“The study of the form is the betting man's philology, philosophy, science, and literary criticism all rolled into one.” — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In poetry magic & science must co-exist. They must creatively interact to create a new poetry of artistic transformation.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“The business of scepticism is to be dangerous. Scepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“In many species, males pay for sex. For example, among black ticked hanging flies, an amorous male will present a female with… — Steve Stewart-Williams Copy Share Image
“Future generations will probably be able to enlighten us on this very interesting subject, and then science itself—with all due respect—may reach… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Unlike the laws of reality that scientist describe in complex mathematical equations, the laws that govern human behavior are imprecise and in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Even in the physical world, all that cannot be caught in the net of modern science is collectively neglected, and its nonexistence… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation… — Henry Fonda Copy Share Image
My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short;… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
My first introduction to computers and computer programming came during my freshman year of college. I majored in electrical engineering with a… — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out." Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If you will look into the Science of Spirit you will see that your life is meant to be sustained by the… — Emma Curtis Hopkins Copy Share Image
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
“The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies. It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image