In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with… — Lawrence Solomon Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
“More profoundly, Nihilist "simplification" may be seen in the universal prestige today accorded the lowest order of knowledge, the scientific, as well… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right… — Jeffrey Boam Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
“I once read that if the folds in the cerebral cortex were smoothed out it would cover a card table. That seemed… — Jay Ingram Copy Share Image
“If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“You can learn from brain scientists how to strengthen what's weak, make flexible what's rigid, and heal what might be broken.” — Jennifer Fraser Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The richest 1 percent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who… — Greta Thunberg Copy Share Image
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
When I was young, I did varied after-school activities - I did art, drama, science, math. I'm not the sporty kind of… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not… — David Corn Copy Share Image
We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural,… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big… — Henry S.F. Cooper Jr Copy Share Image
[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image