It's true that the level of scientific knowledge among adults is very low, but that's not because there isn't a natural interest.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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“Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018,… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
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The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies];… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
“For all my concerns, though, watching the Women’s March, I couldn’t help but be swept up in the joy of the moment… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“The generalized theory of relativity has furnished still more remarkable results. This considers not only uniform but also accelerated motion. In particular,… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science,… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“MacArthur himself was more interested in the similarities among phenomena, because similarities reveal the workings of regular processes…I've already quoted MacArthur's statement… — Quammen, David Copy Share Image
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“No man or Genie on earth had "created" anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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