Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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
Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“They should be bundled like an atheist software package to reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is… — Charles Webster Leadbeater 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
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 squid has even evolved a special place to house the bacteria - a structure scientists call a 'light organ' located inside… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They… — Tim Page Copy Share Image
“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Saint John Paul II wrote, “when its concepts and conclusions can be integrated into the wider human culture and its concerns for ultimate… — Ilia Delio Copy Share Image
“I later learned that while Elsie was at Crownsville, scientists often conducted research on patients there without consent, including one study titled… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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