“Scientific discovery always arises out of meditation, not out of mind. And whenever something comes from the mind, it is not science… — Osho Copy Share Image
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
“How many nights have you remained awake repeating science and poring over books, and have denied yourself sleep. I do not know… — Abu Hamid al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“I've always been a fan of science fiction. I grew up watching Star Trek. Now I get to live it!" "Star Trek?"… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“The arts and humanities are not mere entertainment, to be turned to for relaxation after a busy day spent solving differential equations;… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether… — William Huggins Copy Share Image
“While doing research, a researcher tries to fill up gap(s) but also unknowingly creates gap(s). The later researcher(s) tries to fill that… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second,… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
“To exist is to be in communion, and to be in communion is to exchange information. Accordingly, the fundamental science, indeed the… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day,… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes.… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It… — Arkady Volozh Copy Share Image
“Thanks to meetings and discussions with experts in the natural sciences, with physicists and biologists as well as with historians, I have… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness. The aggregate voice is a defiant prayer. But the spirit of the whole is… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps. Bigger than science, bigger than religion, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about design, if you listen to your code a good design will appear...Listen to the technical people. If they are… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of… — Peter of Blois Copy Share Image
If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Awful? They don't find it so. On the contrary, they like it. It's light, it's childishly simple. No strain on the mind… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“It’s not that children are little scientists — it’s that scientists are big children. Scientists actually are the few people who as… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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![“My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.” quote by Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/carl-jung-274_comparative-religion_my-interests-drew-me-in-different-direct_2874555.jpg)
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