“The real problem with us Africans is our inability to recognize the saviors among us Being confident is often confused with proudness… — Peter Ojo Copy Share Image
One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“It has only been very slowly that scientific method, which seeks to reach principles inductively from observations of particular facts, has replaced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“social media addict? This is a very real problem—so much so that researchers from Norway developed a new instrument to measure Facebook… — Caroline Leaf Copy Share Image
“Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, poked at the ink in his inkwell. There was ice in it. "Don't you even have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If you were casting the part of the evil scientist who would prove the Caped Crusader's deadliest nemesis, you'd likely glance at… — Glen Weldon Copy Share Image
“Stocks passed my e-mail along to Model Gut senior scientist Richard Faulks. Faulks was dismissive not only of extreme chewing, but also… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Those who came up with the innovations were individuals already active in agriculture who looked deliberately and systematically to improve their businesses;… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Biblical eschatology fundamentally challenges the "official" scientific idea that the universe will end in a violent heat death, and instead that the… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
I went to Drexel University, majored in computer science. Drexel has a great program - they call it co-op - but its,… — John Gruber Copy Share Image
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Will we turn our backs on science because it is perceived as a threat to God, abandoning all the promise of advancing… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new… — William King Gregory Copy Share Image
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It can also be useful to politics, enabling that science to discover how much of it is no more than verbal construction,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make… — Timothy Ball Copy Share Image
“Mr. Langdon all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Latino patriots have served and fought in every war. They are artists, dancers, singers, poets and journalists, teachers and scientists. More and… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“As you will see in this book, there is a mountain of scientific evidence to show that the healthiest diet you can… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image