“Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value." This unconditional will to truth—what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This may be why Einstein once said; "Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'The Lost Symbol' has much to impart about the mind-body problem as filtered through the work of Peter's younger sister Katherine, who… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
My dad was a scientist. More than that: my dad grew up in a tiny terraced house in Swansea, the only child… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Developing emotional intelligence is one way to protect yourself from damaging relationships. Emotional intelligence is a science that has been studied and… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present… — Jean Sylvain Bailly Copy Share Image
“As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't it? ... Well, I mean to say, one day… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
We have emphasized the importance of applied action research because it allows evidence-based policy and program development and a focus on learning.… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The wolf reintroduction has gone so well that, somewhat ironically, the wolves are now threatened by their own success. Indeed, virtually all… — William R. Lowry Copy Share Image
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The key to the scientist's purpose is the idea that every phenomenon is the product of a certain given set of condition.… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth.… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“Muller was catapulted into the international fame by his discovery. The effect of radiation on the mutation rate in flies had two… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me:… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When Children of Dune came out in hardback in 1976, it was an instant best seller. True to the prediction of David… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence.… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last -- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God,… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image