All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
“The fine-structure constant is ubiquitous throughout physics. I’ve already noted its connection to the electromagnetic interaction. In atomic physics, the binding energy,… — Gerald Gabrielse Copy Share Image
One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing - such as a religion… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ring ring ring !!! Hello Karma speaking Hi Karma I'm a first time caller and all I would like to say is… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“When a fruit salad, a lover, or a jazz trio is just too imperfect for our tastes, we stop eating, kissing, and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Dear Jeff, I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray for Hollywood" tonight with the segment on Blade Runner .… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Economics is a political argument. It is not – and can never be – a science; there are no objective truths in… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence,… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks that it was the big strong caveman who got the girl, and for the most part, that may have been… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“and when Mrs Thatcher came to the college for a scientific symposium Tyson was deputed to take her round the Common Room.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Tungsten, X-rays, and Coolidge form a trinity that has left an indelible impression upon our life and times. The key word in… — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
The elite government does have devices that can create earthquakes anywhere in the world that they want. I was just in Russia… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Let us accept the possibility that there is, at death, not an abrupt cessation of energy, rather a dispersal. This seems more… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image