Yet another spunky li'l NASA robot lands and begins transmitting back photographs of rocks that appear virtually identical to the rock photos… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“To challenge the verity of one’s own beliefs is to be courageous. To separate the truth from falsity is to be wise.… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind. without the human presence it is just a concatenation of atoms, no different… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“{ Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar Copy Share Image
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Heat may be considered, either in respect of its quantity, or of its intensity. Thus two lbs. of water, equally heated, must… — Joseph Black Copy Share Image
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of… — Bob Hamilton Copy Share Image
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith!… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“As scientists would discover after Einstein’s death, Schwarzschild’s odd theory was right. Stars could collapse and create such a phenomenon, and in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Chapter three delineates the decades-long laboratory work we did with experimental animals, work that passed the requirements to be called “good science.”… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts;… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“In our adventures, we have only seen our monsters more clearly and described his scales and fangs in new ways - ways… — Harold Varmus Copy Share Image
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“The very desire to preserve animals was a subjective sentiment of fail in the animal's intrinsic worth. It was a feeling possessed… — Ian Douglas-Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
“Everything is indeed vyavasthit (the result of scientific circumstiantial evidences) for these birds, is it not! Whatever is necessary, that is exactly… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image