“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of… — Finn Aaserud Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. I like Asimov's… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In… — Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Copy Share Image
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
“This brings me back to the statement that thee is no such thing as living matter. In the cell, all the parts… — Wallace Johnson Copy Share Image
“Criticizing anyone is tantamount to criticizing their worship or devotion (aradhana). It is a grave mistake. It is fine if you cannot… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
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“The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be… — Adam Miller Copy Share Image
With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The difficulty in making sense of even simple speech is well appreciated by computer scientists who struggle to create machines that can… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
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“In fact, meta- and particle physicists have more in common than one might suppose: both tug, if in slightly different directions, at… — Tim Mackintosh-Smith Copy Share Image
“The situation with regard to insulin is particularly clear. In many parts of the world diabetic children still die from lack of… — Charles Herbert Best Copy Share Image
When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time — because I didn’t like sports, I loved to… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you .… — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“In a recent experiment, scientific researchers exposed a group of teenaged boys to an arcade game, and found that all of them… — Peg Tittle Copy Share Image
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