I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
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“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“So far from a political ideology being the quasi-divine parent of political activity, it turns out to be its earthly stepchild. Instead… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
“Not only scientific theory was condemned as the work of the devil. The devil also seems to have known a lot more… — Petr Beckman Copy Share Image
It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“She let him do it, not only because she came out looking all right in his story, not a clock-throwing ruin of… — McKelle George Copy Share Image
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply… — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Copy Share Image
“The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller is that the time it takes him to… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“In 1746 a French scientist, Jean-Antoine Nollet, was interested in how fast electricity could be transmitted. Nollet, a monk, persuaded nearly two… — Ronald T. Merrill Copy Share Image
Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The scientific research is very clear that experiencing trauma without control can be debilitating. But I also worry about people who cruise… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other… — David M. Kelley Copy Share Image
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Today temperament continues to be a major focus of researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, physiology, and neurobiology. While they agree… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
“First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality of the behaviorist notwithstanding). A friend of mine, a… — Jack S. Willis Copy Share Image
In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
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