The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“First time someone broke my heart, I dropped out of engineering and emerged as the Monk Scientist. Second time when I lost… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It’s one thing to get enough evidence to convince yourself, but it’s a whole other matter to produce a demonstration that would… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“A scientist must be a traveller, an explorer. Knowledge comes from experience. ... The path to enlightenment is never linear.” — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
“If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“Baking was a science, precise, just mix it all together and let the oven do the work. But actually cooking, she couldn’t… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“There has been significant debate in the scientific community about whether desire is a symptom of a system infected with amor deliria… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the… — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Copy Share Image
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality. — Robert A. Baker Copy Share Image
The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the… — Jon Elster Copy Share Image
One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must… — G. Tyler Miller Copy Share Image
Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules. — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
We should all be proud of the many contributions Hellenes have made in our society, especially in the areas of science, medicine,… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
[Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving… — Pete Conrad Copy Share Image
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into… — David Christian Copy Share Image