Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth:” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess… — Ferdinand de Lesseps Copy Share Image
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image