David Sainsbury has been good for science and good for innovation in the U.K. He has been an outstanding science minister and… — Mark Walport 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
Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then… — Willis Harman Copy Share Image
We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving a car… — Bernard Loomis Copy Share Image
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve… — George Iles Copy Share Image
Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a… — N.J. Berrill Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could… — Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Flood was not merely a mass of water; but a collection of mud/sediment (earth) that was utilized to destroy the pre-Flood… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical and… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a… — Harriet Brooks Copy Share Image
I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
“The smallest thing in this universe is an intelligent living creature. He sets himself to be imaginary in the premises of arrogant… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Scientists have a theory that life on earth came from a meteor that crashed long ago. I dont know about that. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
'Cube' was the first big science fiction film I was a part of. It was a fantastic directorial debut by one of… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic… — Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it… — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse. — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.' — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“I tested the brackets by hitting them with rocks. This kind of sophistication is what we interplanetary scientists are known for.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture. — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to… — Tom Duff Copy Share Image
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? — Francis Arthur Freeth Copy Share Image