Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or… — Joseph Prestwich Copy Share Image
“You know better than anyone that nothing lasts. Nothing good. Nothing bad. Everything lives. Everything dies. Sometimes cities just fall into the… — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and… — William Petty Copy Share Image
When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“{ Letter to his brother, 1861 } ... I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“Science’ will destroy Difference of opinion. Full blessed state of the self (Complete Samadhi) prevails through the ‘science’, continuous blessed state of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
There are types of energy which lie outside the electromagnetic spectrum. Unfortunately, these research efforts have not been given recognition. For the… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Scientists, doctors, and trained ordinary citizens use drugs and torture to render children machines that do others' bidding. The commands these perpetrators… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
We have been talking about public engagement for a decade. For me it is about recognising that the mission of science has… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences,… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For… — Daniel Goldston Copy Share Image
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“Despite this documentation for both traumatic amnesia and essentially accurate delayed recall, memory science is often presented as if it supports the… — Jennifer J. Freyd Copy Share Image
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
“Day wouldn’t have understood the concept of immortal cells or HLA markers coming from anyone, accent or not—he’d only gone to school… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities --… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“We have to understand that medicine is not simply a science. It's much more than that. It's also an ideology. It's a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something… — Ma Huateng Copy Share Image
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image