“...For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
“The characteristic sounds of a trumpet, oboe, banjo, piano, or violin are due to the distinct cocktail of harmonic frequencies that each… — Walter Lewin Copy Share Image
“We share Hitler's planet and several of his preoccupations; we have changed less than we think. We like our living space, we… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam. I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Our behavioral patterns are exceedingly complex, and psychology is a young science. The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact,… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
“He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them;… — Caspar Friedrich Wolff Copy Share Image
...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“In his great treatise, Electricity and Magnetism, Clerk Maxwell had remarked that we are often told that in science we must, first… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information… — J. P. Guilford Copy Share Image
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I loved school, was an exceptional student, and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University, where… — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
“Moreover, knowledge and investigation help promote wonder they do not destroy it. Whatever our tastes, we can generally appreciate such things as… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“Often they were arranged according to the whim of the owner, as scientific classification was still in flux, new systems evolving all… — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
“They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts," he says,… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Such is the economy of nature," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "that no instance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Fred Hoyle was one of the first scientists to become famous on television and radio. It was because he told a dramatic… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“At this point, scientists have identified over 300 specific genes that play a direct role in mental retardation. That link between genes… — Hunter Maats Copy Share Image
I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
