I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But… — George Weah Copy Share Image
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
“I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art,… — K Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“In the hallowed tradition of squishy doughball liberals, I believe that science, reason, kindness, and understanding—maybe a little food—can set the world… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the… — Vincenzo Galilei Copy Share Image
All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
“When evolution is turned into an All-encompassing Theory explaining absolutely everything we believe, feel, and do as the product of natural selection,… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
On fait la science avec des faits, comme on fait une maison avec des pierres; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“The ridge of the Lammer-muir hills... consists of primary micaceous schistus, and extends from St Abb's head westward... The sea-coast affords a… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“phenomenon has reappeared in a more troubling form with the holy alliance between the believers and what they can borrow or steal… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“The scientific community thrives on probabilities, working theories and fact-based hypothesis that have resulted in the advances we have made in fields… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are. — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
“If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all… — David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
“all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some… — John Pople Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go… — Joe Teti Copy Share Image
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. — Erik Adigard Copy Share Image
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
“The Blues are a simple music and I’m a simple man. But the Blues aren’t a science, the Blues can’t be broken… — Johnny Ferreira Copy Share Image
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance… — James Randi Copy Share Image
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