“If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Researchers have also observed that people who listened to music during exercise actually improved their mood, the speed of their decision-making, and… — Ben Greenfield Copy Share Image
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
“It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking… — Abbe Diaz Copy Share Image
“The “pale blue dot” image and Carl’s prose meditation on it have been beloved the world over ever since. It exemplifies just… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. — George Iles Copy Share Image
“Whilst it may be our species greatest achievement, responsible for every technological advance we have or ever will make, science is also… — Katie McKissick Copy Share Image
I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I learned in school made me a better journalist and a better writer because forensic science is, as scientific disciplines must… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance” — William Beebe Copy Share Image
The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation… — Derek Barton Copy Share Image
It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and… — Serge Haroche Copy Share Image
Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist'… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image