I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes Copy Share Image
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I believe whoever wants to venture into the World of Science should firstly understand the purity of mathematics, for noone can live… — Dielnov Muchati Copy Share Image
“{ McCabe on the influential scientist Luther Burbank } His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“Cavendish is a book in himself. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege- his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent-… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Real intelligence in politics, as in science, is the ability to recognize connections that are not necessarily obvious, to see relationships—seeing the… — F. William Engdahl Copy Share Image
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Skilling is one area where some researchers are looking at outcomes and finding that while there are lots of people who are… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
“For me there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion, for… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance… — Flavia Weedn Copy Share Image
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“A new field of science was emerging: mathematical cognition, or the scientific inquiry into how the human brain gives rise to mathematics...… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
Scientists say they're getting closer to developing a pill to replace exercising. Americans heard this and said that it better come in… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what… — Alan Tower Waterman Copy Share Image
“a discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“Morrigan visited me in my dreams. It tore me away from a nightmare where I was trying to teach high school science… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“Science to write the corporate earnings previews that appear on the website. These stories are all generated by algorithms without human involvement.… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image