Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
“Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science… — Laura Osnes Copy Share Image
“Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“He thought about himself, and the whole Earth, Of Man the wonderful, and of the Stars, And how the deuce they ever… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors… — Lewis Howard Latimer Copy Share Image
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
Scientists have a theory that life on earth came from a meteor that crashed long ago. I dont know about that. But… — Zoheb Copy Share Image
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I'm writinng my first full-length novel, which is based on a novella I wrote called "The Mad Scientist's Daughter." I'm having a… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“Living organisms were not independently created, but have descended and diversified over time from common ancestors. And thus, no other biological theory… — Tommy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“The Caretaker, Sonnet What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I'll bite: Hard science TA's and RA's often repair equipment; it's part of our science. If you want a silver spoon, don't… — Greg Lindahl Copy Share Image
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
“In other words, the “rigorously scientific” method of predicting the future can be applied only in special cases-where prompt action is not… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn’t… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist.… — Syun-Ichi Akasofu Copy Share Image
“As the computer scientist Jaron Lanier reminds us, a company such as Instagram—which Facebook bought in 2012—was not valued at $1 billion… — Marc Goodman Copy Share Image
You know, they say that there is a part of the human chest that it you strike it hard enough, it makes… — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Copy Share Image
“To function as a citizen, you need to know a little bit about a lot of different sciences—a little biology, a little… — Robert M. Hazen Copy Share Image
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image