Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of… — Heinz-Otto Peitgen Copy Share Image
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a… — Henri Poincar Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Science is a human construct. Scientific laws are as valid as our understanding at any particular moment. Scientific laws are not absolute.… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its own creation myth, its own cosmology. And in some respects every cosmology is true, even if I might… — Dennis J. McKenna Copy Share Image
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation &… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant… — Eduardo Paolozzi Copy Share Image
Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. — Maria Klawe Copy Share Image
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons,… — J.R. Partington Copy Share Image
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of… — Ian Barbour Copy Share Image
I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be… — Philippe Perrin Copy Share Image
I studied the sciences up until going to college, and I was either going to do medicine or drama. I chose drama,… — Elizabeth Henstridge Copy Share Image
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I'm very curious to meet a guy who makes you completely forsake the scientific method in favor of unfounded supposition and speculation."… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand. — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“They considered all of life to be part of a great mystery and knew there was no way to separate the secular… — Susan Gregg Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
Science seems to be at war with itself… Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism tobe false.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I went to study electronic engineering and computer science because I was good at math and my father told me it is… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image