Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Astrobiology is a great point of contact for science outreach. The public is naturally interested in extra-terrestrial life. Astrobiology provides an accessible… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“Religionists claim that their truth is absolute and rock solid, while scientists concede that their truth is tentative and relative.” — C. W. Dalton Copy Share Image
Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great… — Joel Klein Copy Share Image
“For us, scientific literacy constitutes the knowledge you need to understand public issues. It is a mix of facts, vocabulary, concepts, history,… — Robert M. Hazen Copy Share Image
For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Lisa, love is magical,” Rema said. “Scientists give such simplified explanations for it, and they’re wrong, because love isn’t something that happens… — Monique Snyman Copy Share Image
“He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“You shouldn’t make jokes about these things,” she said. “Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know.” “It’s got all the best… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When I was young I was very interested in science and technology, and my dad brought home the first computer. I played… — Regina Agyare Copy Share Image
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Who created vyavasthit shakti (natural energy of scientific circumstantial evidence)? No one has created it. Who gives the 'result' of an exam?… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The greatest rank for a man is not FD, Defender of the Faith; but it is SD, Scientia Defensor: Defender of the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
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