Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with… — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the… — Bill Wulf Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“I mean to say that man has a tyrant,—ignorance. I voted for the death of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Back from 2001 to 2003, I wrote multiple editorials for The Washington Post about biological warfare and pandemic preparedness - issues that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
“It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The type of science that I do is sometimes known as 'curiosity-driven research.' This means that my work will never result in… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“The picturing of data allows us to be sensitive not only to the multiple hypotheses that we hold, but to the many… — Tukey 1974 Copy Share Image
“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Medicine, psychology, criminology, sociology. Which treat bodies as machinery (passim Descartes, the “father” of our Western subject). Developing alongside the dirty sciences.… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering… — John Doerr Copy Share Image
I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I aspired to be a doctor not just because my late father was a doctor but because I… — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its… — Ken Jenkins Copy Share Image