“The argument is that we are influenced by historical research.” Michael Simpson glanced over at Sophie before continuing. “When one commences an… — Erik Hamre Copy Share Image
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where she comes up with this stuff. Her mind... it’s like I’ve come upon this secret vault that science… — Caprice Crane Copy Share Image
It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how… — Jean Sylvain Bailly Copy Share Image
“But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more… — Herbert York Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists,… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake… — David Zaslav Copy Share Image
So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“We have one collective hope: the Earth And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound Sufferers hurl themselves into the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe;… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
“What if the theories in psychology that dominate our mainstream culture are flawed, rather than the people they diagnose? That we close… — Dr. Kristen Lee Copy Share Image
“I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Scientists were the embodiment of this new-fangled sobriety—impartial, businesslike, colorless, and reliable. Or so people assumed. For in actual practice, it was… — David Van Reybrouck Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don’t normally… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image