“One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“Christianity does not displace scientific accounts of the world; rather, it lends them ontological depth and clarity, and in doing so, discloses… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: “He [God] taught… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“There are little wisps of jelly in a living brain. Deagle knows this well: neurons, transmitting signals - and the soul, so… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Ethnocentrism, xenophobia and nationalism are these days rife in many parts of the world. Government repression of unpopular views is still widespread.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure… — Eduard Suess Copy Share Image
“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the… — Wilhelm Korner Copy Share Image
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
“. Myth and superstition cannot compete with science on the platforms of reason and facts. But on the platform of fear mongering,… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“The world is not an impediment, it is your ignorance (of the Self) that impedes you. When does ignorance (of the Self)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously.… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Generally, it is greed, fear and curiosity which make us live outwardly. A French scientist who worked in America, Alexis Carrel, said… — Anthony Bloom Copy Share Image
It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
“The wolf is regarded by many North-American scientists like Coppinger (2003) or Peterson (1995) as an "indicator species" for intact wilderness. In… — Günther Bloch Copy Share Image
Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done; but distrust… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image