“Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before –… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature -… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I do not like mystical language, and yet I hardly know how to express what I mean without employing phrases that sound… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Someone who thinks up a new theory is the last person who should be trusted with the job of testing it. A… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
“I am no scientist. I explore the neighborhood. An infant who has just learned to hold up his head has a frank… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth… — Max Born Copy Share Image
If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business… — John Wilbanks Copy Share Image
“After listening in, Franny had decided that magic was not so very far from science. Both endeavors searched for meaning where there… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
At the National Institute for Medical Research, I came into contact with biological scientists and formed collaborative projects with several of them.… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
“They have to say SOMETHING. Maria Bartiromo can't exactly look into the camera and say that the Dow is down half a… — Phil Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“In keeping with the methodical scientist he was, he had been jotting daily notes on his work. But underneath the entry for… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever… — Georgios Papanikolaou Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the universe is 4% visible, 23% undetectable and 73% unimaginable. Welcome to the cosmos, full of mass you can… — Tim Radford Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
“A vast and fiery nuclear furnace launched photons through the reaches of space; they hurtled trillions of kilometers at breakneck speed, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“You stupid fool, you know very well it's not a short novel, but something longer...A piece of work you've got to buckle… — Iván Mándy Copy Share Image
The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image