“Science might maintain the quantitative constancy of matter, but the so-called matter is mere abstraction. To say matter is changeless is as… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I do not give a damn whether a person is a scientist, a philosopher or a theologian If that person cannot recognize… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view.” “Why?” “Because… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Epic science fiction game, that's always been on my mind. Post-apocalyptic, 'Fallout,' was our first choice. Sci-fi was our second at the… — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
“nothing has contributed more to the scientific validity of reading body language than neuroscience and the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging… — Carol Kinsey Goman Copy Share Image
Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced… — Genrich Altshuller Copy Share Image
“A coherent and useful conservative response would be that unless a sounder case can be made that the planet is undergoing anything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Using a 500,000 snip chip, researchers at Stanford University have found a strong correspondence between the genetics and geographical origins of Europeans.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“On one hand, Kant thought science led to the conclusion that humans are elements in a vast machine operating by the laws… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Some people argue that economics is an exception to this general story. Economics, they say, provides a much more analytically precise and… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
“A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize… — Nicolas Lemery Copy Share Image
“It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
I am grateful to my colleagues at Brandeis and to the unusual environment here that allows researchers to explore without boundaries while… — Michael Rosbash Copy Share Image
As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period.… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life.… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
“Colonisation is violence, and there are many ways to carry out that violence. In addition to military and administrative chiefs and a… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image