“A story about the Jack Spratts of medicine [was] told recently by Dr. Charles H. Best , co-discoverer of insulin. He had… — Richard Mackarness Copy Share Image
I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously… — Isaiah Hankel Copy Share Image
“No, my point is that life on earth can take of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
“In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
“In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“As for the other aspect, creative or signed enunciation, it is clear that scientific propositions and their correlates are just as signed… — Janis Tomlinson Félix Guattari Graham Burchell III Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“As people across the Arab world are all dealing with their politics, revolutions, human rights issues and uprisings, science speaks to all of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.… — Avi Copy Share Image
It is as though nature is a wonderful symphony that science sits in awe of. It looks closely at each player, how… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality… — Dr. Mawde Royden Copy Share Image
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“All supernatural horror depends on a confusion of what we believe should be and should not be. As scientists, philosophers, and spiritual… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the… — Stefan Hell Copy Share Image
Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Standing there, peering around his room, Pete realized something that should have dawned on him years ago: Science really did suck. (Russell… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Copy Share Image
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