Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our… — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Night had fallen, and Diane admired the deep sky behind Steve's calm countenance. They looked into each other's eyes again and felt… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“At the time, most bodies worked on by anatomists were cold indeed. They were brought to Edinburgh from all over Britain --… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“True faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s a leap into the light.* We shouldn’t be afraid of the facts.… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“The understanding of complexity and the use of the creativity of nature, the continuation of the work of nature are the grand… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“Accepting everything that scientists say or rejecting everything is the easy way out because it doesn’t require thinking.” — Leonard Brand Copy Share Image
It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.” — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
“when the old empire began to rot at the fringes, it could be considered that science, as science, had failed the outer… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded;… — Grove Karl Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“Hoh, Boy!" Freddy snorted, slapping his palm to his forehead. "I hope you never donate your brain to science. It would set… — Bertrand R. Brinley Copy Share Image
I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Not one of the first six [U.S.] presidents was an orthodox Christian. Most of the founders were Deists, who "doubted that Christ… — Robert Sherrill Copy Share Image