“Science’s skeptical core makes it a poor competitor for human hearts and minds, which recoil from its ongoing controversies and prefer the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
“Scientists say that...gender bending may keep fish from reproducing because, with so many in sexual limbo, there's just no real push to… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a… — Suzanne Lee Copy Share Image
We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there.… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
“Other than the substantial physiological impact of prayer/meditation, there is another much simpler mind-body intervention that helps all religious and spiritual individuals… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as… — William James Copy Share Image
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“The first thing you will notice is that Simms’ ark is much closer to the biblical proportions that were given: 300 by… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men… — Brom Copy Share Image
Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“recognition skills. Your subconscious. Your left brain is a scientist. Your right brain is an artist. People live their lives out of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific… — James A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Earthwatch Institute offers an opportunity to join research scientists around the globe, assisting with field studies and research. Most programs involve wildlife—for… — Wooldridge, Jane Copy Share Image
“Matters came to a head after 1918, when the French scientist Paul Portier published his rhetorical masterpiece Les Symbiotes. He was nothing… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
“When I was chasing storms for the Weather Channel, I tagged along with scientists who would speed toward a spinning tornado...meteorologists will… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
Look, a lot of people in my grandfather's position would have chosen to go out and be really wild with their spending… — David Lee Copy Share Image
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we know, the… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
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