Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science… — Renato Dulbecco Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
They don't hand out Ph.D.s in test piloting, but you pick up a tremendous amount of scientific and engineering knowledge along the… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Much like the kākāpō who waddles up a hill, digs a hole and bellows into it to attract a mate, billionaires may… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
“The extermination of Poland's literary heritage was frighteningly efficient. Researchers have estimated that 70 percent of all books in Poland were destroyed… — Anders Rydell Copy Share Image
“You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But I shall wait, according to my science of government, until conditions are… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
“One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus shaping our brain… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out. — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
“Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can… — Graham Kendall Copy Share Image
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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