“The China Study was conducted over the course of decades by researchers at Cornell and Oxford University. Over six-hundred thousand people in… — Jesse Jacoby Copy Share Image
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Economics is in many respects the queen of the soft sciences. It's expected to be better than the rest. It's my view… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Thinking is seeing… Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust… — Ibn al-Haytham Copy Share Image
What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know—and… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“The reason Dick 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“They intend to make people's very appetites the next weapon of uncountable destruction. They intend that your people will lust themselves into… — Robert Stikmanz Copy Share Image
“One of the leading figures in quantum physics, Niels Bohr, would sometimes tell his students, “The problem with your idea is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Science is far from the objective and impartial search for incontrovertible truths that nonscientists might imagine. It is, in fact, a social… — Svante Pääbo Copy Share Image
“Last year, 26 percent of Stanford’s undergraduate degrees were awarded in computer science or engineering, about three times as many as at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At the age of three and a half the Taung Child was eaten by an eagle. The evidence is that damage marks… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility,… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies… — Ostwald Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Dr. Harrison,” Said Dr. Miller. “To claim the right to operate genetic changes in living creatures supposes the possession of the wisdom… — Abdelouahab Hammoudi Copy Share Image
As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“In the end, what I've learned is that when it comes to this type of science, you really can't be arrogant and… — Dan Fagin Copy Share Image
“In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application… — Patrick Grim Copy Share Image