“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Visionary fiction” is a term we developed to distinguish science fiction that has relevance toward building new, freer worlds from the mainstream… — Adrienne Maree Brown Copy Share Image
“True genius is the one of the heart, not of intellect. Because intellect-less heart, though exploited a lot, still does good, whereas… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Dragons and Afterlife .. I don't see any difference between both of them, we didn't see neither the dragons nor afterlife, we… — Sherif Gaber Copy Share Image
“I like the term "decedent." It's as though the man weren't dead, but merely involved in some sort of protracted legal dispute.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
“About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“The exact science of human regeneration is the Lost Key of Masonry, for when the Spirit Fire is lifted up through the… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
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Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“space, then that means we’re not alone in the universe.” She paused. “But also, far more incredibly…” “Yes?” Dr. Bennett smiled for… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak Copy Share Image
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“In a last-ditch effort, some readers may pathetically attack the scientific method, claiming that all subjective perspective is flawed and cannot be… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“A brilliant black thinker, he grew up in South Carolina, where someone called the police when young Ron tried to check out… — Leland Melvin Copy Share Image
I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in… — Chris Shays Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be… — Cara Santa Maria Copy Share Image
I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Magic is not, and never has been a substitute for science, but is rather a constructive activity with a specific social function,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
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