One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate. — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“website optimization, which is the art and science of enhancing the user experience of a website with the goal of converting users… — Richard Stokes Copy Share Image
This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube… — Frank M. Robinson Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“So in the twentieth century, there’s a major current of American thought―in fact, it’s probably the dominant current among people who think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the… — M.-L. von Franz Copy Share Image
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of… — George F. Hourani Copy Share Image
“What is Science, What is Holy (Sonnet) There is no greater spiritual journey than the rejection of prejudice, there is no greater… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image