In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
“Get the girl to check the numbers,' said the astronaut. If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I'm ready… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Dr. Blockhead's mocking face was solemn for once. 'Modern science is wiping out deviant strains of the human form,' he said. 'In… — Les Martin Copy Share Image
“A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The… — George Polya Copy Share Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm believe that countries and people make choices for themselves about what science they accept or don't accept. And it should be… — Ellen J. Kullman Copy Share Image
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
“The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking… — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned Copy Share Image
Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist;… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image