Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“ Svante Arrhenius , recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
“And thinking never did anybody any good, no matter what your teachers and parents and the science-club freaks tell you.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The battle for control of science went on. Many administrations and Congresses hadn’t wanted technology or the environment assessed at all, as… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I'll point out that I can only do three of the five forms… — Tom Noddy Copy Share Image
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world,… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science? The Savage frowned. He knew the word. But what it exactly signified he could not say. Shakespeare and the old men… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Integrity and being ethical is one of Affectiva's core values. This means we hold the highest standards for all we do, especially… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
“Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
“God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“As physicist Max Planck once observed, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking… — Daniel Gardner Copy Share Image
Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays… — Leon Croizat Copy Share Image
“If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry. { Comment on… — Adolf Von Baeyer Copy Share Image
I got my masters in social sciences and education at Stanford, and initially - this is back in 2002 or 2003 when… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Every interview I do, when I'm asked about scientific issues, I say I'm not a climate scientist. I'm just giving you the… — Myron Ebell Copy Share Image