I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Both, business expectation and scientific hypothesis serve the same purpose; both reflect an attempt at cognition and orientation in an imperfectly known… — Ludwig Lachmann Copy Share Image
When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“Some say that eating chocolate is better than kissing, and scientists have dutifully tested this hypothesis by carrying out a set of… — Mark Miodownik Copy Share Image
If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing - such as a religion… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The fine-structure constant is ubiquitous throughout physics. I’ve already noted its connection to the electromagnetic interaction. In atomic physics, the binding energy,… — Gerald Gabrielse Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ring ring ring !!! Hello Karma speaking Hi Karma I'm a first time caller and all I would like to say is… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“When a fruit salad, a lover, or a jazz trio is just too imperfect for our tastes, we stop eating, kissing, and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
“Dear Jeff, I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray for Hollywood" tonight with the segment on Blade Runner .… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Economics is a political argument. It is not – and can never be – a science; there are no objective truths in… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“[Strategy] is more than a science: it is the application of knowledge to practical life, the development of thought capable of modifying… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
Science is science. Science is what is. After discovery, tests, trial, if a consensus of scientists today said that the sun orbits… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“While he attends to his rats, Persinger gives me the lowdown on the haunt theory. Why would a certain type of electromagnetic… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you do have to take someone else’s word for it. And sometimes you will want to defer to an authority with… — Denise Minger Copy Share Image
Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image