To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day,… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes.… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
There are certain yoga laws and principles that are, shall we say, less tangible than others. For example, the law of karma.… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
“In the light of this, it seems to me, we should recognize that the problem of climate change that occupies international negotiations… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Just one miracle in the life of any person totally disproves the entire premises of the fundamentals of materialistic science. And people… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“While political scientists see ‘Europe’ either as a new form of political structure, having little in common with the nation-state, or as… — Bernard Connolly Copy Share Image
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or… — Patrick Steptoe Copy Share Image
“Scientific discovery always arises out of meditation, not out of mind. And whenever something comes from the mind, it is not science… — Osho Copy Share Image
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“How many nights have you remained awake repeating science and poring over books, and have denied yourself sleep. I do not know… — Abu Hamid al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“I've always been a fan of science fiction. I grew up watching Star Trek. Now I get to live it!" "Star Trek?"… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“The arts and humanities are not mere entertainment, to be turned to for relaxation after a busy day spent solving differential equations;… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea we would put Americans' economy in jeopardy based on… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
“Your scientific beliefs tell you that your entire world happend accidentally. Your religions tell you that man is sinful: The body is… — Seth- The Individual And The Nature Of Mass Events Copy Share Image
Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“Science helps us explore the objective mysteries of life. Spirituality helps us explore the subjective mysteries of life. Science is essentially a… — Tim Freke Copy Share Image
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
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