Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“study recently published by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, Cornell and Facebook suggests that social networks can” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“The Research Excellence Framework is starting to ask what sorts of curiosity our culture can afford, and that scares me even more… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws,… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“That which we never question is the concept itself. But what is a concept? Is it necessary to put the idea of… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Most innovation is not done by research institutes and national laboratories. It comes from manufacturing - from companies that want to extend… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
“The science is clear: if psi exists, the most reliable way to see it is through the lens of statistics. As a… — Steve Volk Copy Share Image
“Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances? Professor Jones:… — David Morgan-Mar Copy Share Image
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“O you who honor art and science both, who are these souls whose dignity has kept their way of being, separate from… — Dante Canto IV Inferno Copy Share Image
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works… — James Madison Copy Share Image
At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a… — Plato Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom… — Henry James Copy Share Image