It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
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The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
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During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Suppose that there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other… — Hideki Yukawa Copy Share Image
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
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All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“Researchers looked at 15 states that had experienced significant tree loss due to the beetle infestation and concluded the borer was linked… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message.… — Johnny Ball Copy Share Image
I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —address to the Society for Psychical… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“We working scientists increasingly find ourselves living in a kind of Tower of Babel, where it’s harder and harder to stay abreast… — Peter Doherty Copy Share Image
“Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
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The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
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