If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend"… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
“It is important to realize that if certain areas of science appear to be quite mature, others are in the process of… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Nescience is the basis of everything, it creates everything by an action repeated every moment, it produces this and any world, since… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The difference between Lorentz's Transformation in Lorentz's theory and Lorentz's Transformation in Einstein's Special Relativity is not mathematical but ontological and epistemological… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science.… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
“The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathetical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Proof for the existence of God cannot come directly from the physical sciences. It’s not that scientists aren’t intelligent people. It’s simply… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“We would kiss slowly, like scientists who analyzed the chemistry of passion, the electricity of desperation, the heat of loneliness, the sudden… — Nikolai Grozni Copy Share Image
It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
“By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of… — Brenda Maddox Copy Share Image
“The human condition to ignore or dispel ideas is an admission of fear by oneself and refusing to seek out the phenomena… — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their… — George Iles Copy Share Image
Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I… — Aubrey McClendon Copy Share Image
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
Look, I'm not a water expert. I'm not a scientist. But I've been to Flint. I've seen what's happening. We have a… — Rasheed Wallace Copy Share Image
Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
“The “Art of Possible” can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image