“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
“It is also worth noting that the earth gravitational field though locally ‘vertical’ is globally radial as the centrifugal field in the… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Any scientist that wants to change the prevailing paradigm is automatically branded a heretic, apostate, infidel, blasphemer, maverick or lunatic, exactly as… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
“All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No… — Joe Nickell Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“Back in the day, the story goes, four science fiction writers - Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and L Ron Hubbard… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“I believe that the Big-Bang Theory and the Evolution Theory, as well as Einstein’s Special Relativity Theory which does not allow for… — Dr. Takaaki Musha Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“It is to geometry that we owe in some sort the source of this discovery [of beryllium]; it is that [science] that… — Antoine-François De Fourcroy Copy Share Image
“But then in middle school science, Mr. Martinez asked who among us had ever fantasized about living in the clouds, and everyone… — John Green Copy Share Image
If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I'm there. I'm gonna say, "Yeah. Here's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Even the best strategy sometimes yields bad results—which is why computer scientists take care to distinguish between “process” and “outcome.” If you… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I was led to the conclusion that at the most extreme dilutions all salts would consist of simple conducting molecules. But the… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
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