America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
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Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
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I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental… — Holly Robinson Peete Copy Share Image
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
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Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
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Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
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Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
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Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game.… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
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