“The difference between force and persuation is a subtile one not to be drawn by formulas, by force, by science, or textbooks… — Crane Brinton Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down,… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we… — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
“When God is invisible behind the world, the contents of the world will become new gods; when the symbols of transcendent religiosity… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Most creative scientists, even the most prolific and versatile, produce one theory per subject. When that theory has run its course they… — Basil Mahon Copy Share Image
“by establishing the Mental Nature of the Universe, easily explains all of the varied mental and psychic phenomena that occupy such a… — Three Initiates Copy Share Image
Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“The promoters of the standards claim they are based in research. They are not. There is no convincing research, for example, showing… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I picked up an old microscope at a flea market in Verona. In the long evenings, in my imitation of life science,… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Peter Drucker, the noted management guru, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “customer research may be more important than market research—but… — Jaynie L. Smith Copy Share Image
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist… — Arthur Ganson Copy Share Image
Justin Trudeau certainly understands climate science, as do his ministers. But they're refusing to take action on it because of short-term political… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions,… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find… — William Wilson Morgan Copy Share Image
“Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
“We wonder if science follows the law of Tao? To be light, there must be darkness, to be something,there must be nothing...something… — Den Sjo Copy Share Image
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Because of technologies from space exploration, we can begin to understand our world's origins, and our lives are improving. These are the… — Emily Calandrelli Copy Share Image
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image