While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“the Clinton campaign showed no sign at all that the midwestern states Trump’s scientists now considered winnable were even in play. As… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One could argue that the observer effect is the primary energetic dynamic of ‘reality’ itself. This effect showcases the eminently malleable nature… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she… — tom robbins Copy Share Image
“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“Anyone who is unimpressed with sneering atheism will be unimpressed by the famous science fiction works by Margaret Atwood or the fantasy… — John C Wright Copy Share Image
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“This and countless later experiences working in and around the world of "shrinks" and the mentally ill has led me to the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
“The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“The very best thing about landing in that grave? Perspective. So I peer through this morning's prism: a science test looming in… — Julia Heaberlin Copy Share Image
Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to scare you though. There is a lot of interesting science behind it all and although precautions are important,… — Ella Coleman Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The science of Raja-Yoga, in the first place, proposes to give us such a means of observing the internal states. The instrument… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance,… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“Some scientists refer to the control network as an “emotion regulation” network. They assume that emotion regulation is a cognitive process that… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson Copy Share Image