Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
“During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“And what science had revealed was this: Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not suffer… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any… — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner Copy Share Image
“… for it is very probable, that the motion of gravity worketh weakly, both far from the earth, and also within the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world.… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal -… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“The physicist's relativity, which in recent years has changed our whole approach to scientific knowledge, is harder, and therefore easier to understand,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
I was a scientist. I know where the joy lies. It is wonderful finding a like-minded scientist and delving deep into the… — Randy Olson Copy Share Image
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“This kind of event is so rare as to be the stuff of myth. Modern science has never managed to verify that… — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
“From the earliest days of Unitarianism and Universalism, these traditions have advocated for the compatibility of science and religion. Both traditions encourage… — Mark W. Harris Copy Share Image
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“It is irrelevant whether or not there are other forms of life in the Galaxy or in other galaxies. The fact that… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
“We have known for a long time that the pantheon of science is decorated with failure. Failures are the moving force in… — Joseph Jebelli Copy Share Image
Science philosophy and education are as one and the same. In order to obtain knowledge or to create a philosophy; an educational… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I ate in the morning what I would digest in the evening; I swallowed as a boy what I would ruminate upon… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
“It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political… — Michael Kelly Copy Share Image
“Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image