“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
“Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“short periods of time. The researchers wanted to understand how. So they measured subjects’ vital signs, installed video cameras inside their homes… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“But in the military sphere, just as in science, economics, art, or culture, change is not evenly distributed across space and time.… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are… — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. — George Wald Copy Share Image
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“If what you call 'god' means [Shiva, Jesus, Allah or Buddha] then I say he doesn't exist at all... But if you… — Vedang Sati Copy Share Image
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books,… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere… — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image
“Did you know that a recent scientific study has shown that 92% of children who never tidied their rooms achieved better grades… — James Warwood Copy Share Image
Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's… — Martin Berkeley Copy Share Image
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Most new ideas are branded as heresy, until a time when, either through science or technology, they can be proven as truth.” — S.E. Meyer Copy Share Image
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern… — Richard Goldschmidt Copy Share Image
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course,… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image