“Since Samoylenko had left Dorpat, where he had studied medicine, he had rarely seen a German and had not read a single… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Cats catch mice, small birds and the like, very well. Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“If an Elder shall give us a lecture upon astronomy, chemistry, or geology, our religion embraces it all. It matters not what… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA.… — Kawhi Leonard Copy Share Image
“As we already pointed out, 'special' means 'restricted to Inertial Frames of Reference', i.e. this theory cannot describe the Universe from an… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“Over a century ago, scientists first began to argue that the patent system and scientific data should be opened up. Back then,… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of… — Plato Copy Share Image
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides… — Luis Federico Leloir Copy Share Image
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mary’s Fingerprints The most significant era where her fingerprints have been left is medieval Europe. The word medieval today has many negative… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention… — Democritus Copy Share Image
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend,… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
“I am a collector of bread crumbs, all those bits of science and history that I mash and knead together to build… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image