Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is a current perception is that science has overtaken Philosophy and in effect rendered Philosophy irrelevant. Science, when sufficiently abstracted, approaches… — Tom Golway Copy Share Image
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction? Why… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us.… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
“If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
“As the floodwaters advanced during the global Flood, humans would have fled to higher ground, swam, or held on to floating debris… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Science has marched forward. But civilization’s values remain rooted in philosophies, religious traditions, and ethical frameworks devised many centuries ago. Even our… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In fact, the laboratory may be the greatest friend to dumb animals. As science advances, the lives of animals will improve as… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just… — Emma Caulfield Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts… — Bertram Brockhouse Copy Share Image
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“More we know more we know our ignorance. Darkness can be perceived with the help of light. Facts are stranger than fiction.… — Ajay Kansal Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“Anybody who has done high school physics knows Newton’s Third Law. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You… — Sean J. Halford Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the… — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Copy Share Image