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The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
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I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads… — Deborah Copaken Copy Share Image
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The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold;… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“However, the British leaders failed to listen to their scientists, expressing disbelief that the technology would be of any use now that… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
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I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it's not the cure… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Two different geologists (who simply do not have a hand in this debate since they are secular), who were searching for oil… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
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In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
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I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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