“It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether… — Pierre Curie Copy Share Image
Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“Dr. Chuck “Chuckles” Gigglebrooks, lead researcher at the National Association of Laughter Studies, had this conclusion to draw about why people laugh:… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible,… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I'm having a boring interview on the telephone, and I'm trying to think about something else because the questions are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Practice listening to other people talk about their beliefs without interrupting them. Listen to Catholics, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons, Anarchists, Republicans, KKK members,… — Timber Hawkeye Copy Share Image
“Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to scare you though. There is a lot of interesting science behind it all and although precautions are important,… — Ella Coleman Copy Share Image
“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
“The science of Raja-Yoga, in the first place, proposes to give us such a means of observing the internal states. The instrument… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance,… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Some scientists refer to the control network as an “emotion regulation” network. They assume that emotion regulation is a cognitive process that… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“Just as the dignity of man is based on his freedom--to the extent that he may even say no to God--likewise, the… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson Copy Share Image
