In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
“In Russia, Stalin ordered Soviet scientists to prove that communism creates unselfish people, a trait which then could be inherited over generations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“So carefully considering the text, we can conclude that the construction of the ark did not involve the 120 years mentioned in… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties… — John Lighton Synge Copy Share Image
Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres,… — Tu Youyou Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
“In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
The elite government does have devices that can create earthquakes anywhere in the world that they want. I was just in Russia… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
“Let us accept the possibility that there is, at death, not an abrupt cessation of energy, rather a dispersal. This seems more… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning… — John Medina Copy Share Image
“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose… — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence,… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“and when Mrs Thatcher came to the college for a scientific symposium Tyson was deputed to take her round the Common Room.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks that it was the big strong caveman who got the girl, and for the most part, that may have been… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
“What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image