“I have reached far beyond my competence and have probably secured for good a reputation for flamboyant gestures. But the times still… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place,… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Love. Passion. Belief. Duty. The lines blur sometomes. There are ove fifteen recognised mjor religions on this planet. One religion believes something… — Gary Russell Copy Share Image
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Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
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It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
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Science is science. Science is what is. After discovery, tests, trial, if a consensus of scientists today said that the sun orbits… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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