There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how… — William Law Copy Share Image
The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found… — John Gibbons Copy Share Image
“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I prefer not to starve, to live by the practice of medicine, which combines the best features of both science and philosophy… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“Some scientists were conducting an experiment, he said, trying to gauge the impact of abuse on children. Ducks, like people, develop bonds… — Rachel Reiland Copy Share Image
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't like confrontational politics. But I like to be able to look at something like the oceans and go: 'Here's what… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
“Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
“It was never reasonable or fair that women should shoulder the burden of household management, but it is possible that in an… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A highly trained scientist who is also a perfected man may eventually create a world and people it, but a dissolute unrepentant,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as:… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
“ONE must sometimes believe what one cannot understand. That is the method of the scientist as well as the mystic: faced with… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous,… — James Grant Copy Share Image
One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because the alternative of supposing an independent origin of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
![“[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another more appropriate name. I have chosen that of Uranium, as a kind of memorial, that the chemical discovery…” quote by Martin Heinrich Klaproth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/761/martin-heinrich-klaproth-72236_appropriate_pitchblende-consists-of-a-peculiar-disti_2854884.png)
![“I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments…” quote by Douglas Hofstadter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1e/douglas-hofstadter-16025_ability_i-would-proclaim-that-the-vast-majority_3039297.jpg)
![“I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple…” quote by Joseph Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b83/joseph-murray-24248_best-time_i-tell-medical-students-that-they-are-th_2693922.jpg)
![“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war. [ Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during World War I .]” quote by Ernest Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c73/ernest-rutherford-13268_apology_if-as-i-have-reason-to-believe-i-have-di_2899367.png)
![“We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated]…” quote by Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/norman-mailer-839_aliens_we-divorced-ourselves-from-the-materials_880092.png)
