“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit… — Alexander Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because… — George Kukla Copy Share Image
I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard,… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
“In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis argues that human beings cannot be truly good or moral without faith in God and without… — Phil Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
“The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish… — William Henry Preece Copy Share Image
Modern science & doctors can do a great deal to prolong life. The life span is lengthening, but that is merely postponing… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“What we learn is that the scientist is as important a part of this experiment as the electron, and that the scientist… — Danny Scheinmann Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“He died a modern death, in hospital,…after medical science had prolonged his life to a point where the terms on which it… — julian barnes Copy Share Image
“We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile… — Stephen Emmott Copy Share Image
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“This is the root of magic and science, life’s response to uncertainties. Magic runs to the beginnings of life because life is… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image