“The real bible is not the work of inspired men, nor prophets, nor apostles, nor evangelists, nor of Christs. Every man who… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Rise of Science Denialism The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When somebody discovers something like the quadratic formula or the Pythagorean theorem, the convention in science is that he can't control that… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even… — Leigh Page Copy Share Image
I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The humanities and social sciences devote most of their energies to explaining exactly how the imagined order is woven into the tapestry… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Her mother was a Christian Scientist who didn't believe in calling doctors. So when my mother caught whooping cough as a baby,… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be… — Henry Tizard Copy Share Image
“Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
“Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“Marx’s Manifesto, published in 1847, reflects the state of historical science of the period. It fixes the thirteenth century as the beginning… — Régine Pernoud Copy Share Image
There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came… — George Polya Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will teach candour, she who aims at attainment of it will find her countenance improved as her mind is informed and… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“You simplify because you cannot believe. You reduce; you diminish. Because you were raised to doubt and debunk. To reduce to a… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“and science, can be traced back as a direct result of this deficiency in human thinking. We can express this deficiency in… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science… — Dr Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I… — Peter Andre Copy Share Image
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
“Since the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can… — Jean Louisa Kelly Copy Share Image
“And below, the notebook filled with fine cursive script, laying out in strict order conclusion and delusion, mingling myth and science, drawing… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image