The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“Sciences and theologies are my playthings, I'm the pulse before reason and scriptures.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great. — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it.… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Its not what we do, its how we do it,that makes us have a comfortable life,science has enabled us to have more… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes,… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
“Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen. [Flanagan's… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“An egg is a chemical process, but it is not a mere chemical process. It is one that is going places—even when,… — John Randall Copy Share Image
Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena… — Robert Lowie Copy Share Image
“The belief that science proceeds from observation to theory is still so widely and so firmly held that my denial of it… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image