Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Scientists say that these things evolved this way over millions of years." He shook his head. "That's a bunch of bunk. I… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
“Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the… — David Felten Copy Share Image
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating… — John Olver Copy Share Image
“It is not “scientism” to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“Is it really your intention to be a soldier, Morley?" Askell asked. "Wouldn't it make more sense for you to study the… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“...it seems to me that sometimes-or perhaps I might venture most of the time-occurrences have no cause at all. New stars appear… — Galen M. Beckett Copy Share Image
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Reactions. That’s what Major Tom said. Science is all about reactions. Chemistry is about reactions – potassium in water. Physics is about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example,… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
“Because Control knew that belief in a scientific process only took you so far. The ziggurats of illogic erected by your average… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image