Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of… — William Hamilton Copy Share Image
Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the… — Walter M. Fitch Copy Share Image
'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.' — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
“The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and… — Thomas Thomson Copy Share Image
“As the researchers noted, single people are more willing to live in mixed neighborhoods, but people with children seek homogeneity.84” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Dr. P. may therefore serve as a warning and parable -- of what happens to a science which eschews the judgmental, the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game.… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit… — Alexander Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because… — George Kukla Copy Share Image
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image