When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much.… — Corey Flintoff Copy Share Image
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of… — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“There are times when the marvels of scientific advancement expedite our processes, making our lives easier. Modern technology provides machines that can… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected. — Edward Griffith Begle Copy Share Image
The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her… — Ellen Klages Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy,… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
“Though science has contributed a considerable amount of good to the world, its materialized version’s primary contribution has been that of doubt,… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the… — Vladimir L. Voeikov Copy Share Image
No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
“About these scientists,” Truman said, “we need men with great intellects, need their ideas. But we need to balance them with other… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance." — Gan De Copy Share Image
