There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
“I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an… — James Tate Copy Share Image
Journalists, whose job is to pull back and tell dramatic stories that bring power into focus, find it impossible because things like… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something… — John Mayow Copy Share Image
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether… — Ralph Alfred Habas Copy Share Image
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the… — William James Copy Share Image
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all… — Stanislao Cannizzaro Copy Share Image
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is… — Samuel Wilks Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
“Being on the moon is about harnessing science and technology. Waveless waterbeds are about harnessing nature and that, by definition, is not… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“Ours is thus a realism of lush and leafy spaces rather than deserts, with science regularly revealing new thickets of canopy. Anyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“...the ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion. Thus it… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
“I just question the value of isolated math, science and literary skills - especially when they're achieved at the expense of social… — Muffy Mead-Ferro Copy Share Image
“The ecosystem in which academic scientists work has created conditions that actually set them up for failure. There’s a constant scramble for… — Richard F. Harris Copy Share Image
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Bernard Hopkins' style is the way...everything he does is for a reason - little head feints, little hand movements, little shoulder rolls… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image