“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.” — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
What is love? In math, a problem. In history, a battle. In science, it's a reaction. In art, it's a heart.But to… — MirandaaBoo Copy Share Image
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is an unseen dynamic world in and around us that scientists have only just started to scratch its surface. It is… — Claudys Kantara Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“To preserve our absolute categories or ideals at the expense of human lives offends equally against the principles of science and of… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met… — J. J. C. Smart Copy Share Image
“You begin to see the point? Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We are alive and we resonate with idea of life elsewhere, but only careful accumulation and assessment of the evidence can tell… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
“The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve… — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one… — Charles Manning Child Copy Share Image
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
