But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than… — Plato Copy Share Image
“In 2004, researchers Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson published Character Strengths and Virtues, a manual with twenty-four such categories, divided into six… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Many a woman shudders ... atthe terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At the time, most bodies worked on by anatomists were cold indeed. They were brought to Edinburgh from all over Britain --… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
“Here’s another example that some overworked mothers might find inspiring. We saw in Chapter 2 that being the one who produces the… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“Night had fallen, and Diane admired the deep sky behind Steve's calm countenance. They looked into each other's eyes again and felt… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
“The scientist opened her eyes and shook her head, trying to clear it. The ship had rushed her awakening sequence. Why? The… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“This is a small episode in an unending argument between those who know they are right and therefore claim the mandate of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“It is worth knowing the rules of vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidences). The invention of an aeroplane is not out of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“Scientists at first were skeptical that a kitten-type being could exist in the rare Martian atmosphere. As a test, two Earth kittens… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and… — Peter A. Sturrock Copy Share Image
I do sense, as compared with let's say the early '50s, there's somewhat more of a careerism. I don't think it's anything… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Ossa autem alia quae sunt infra basilare non bene ad sensum apparent nisi ossa illa decoquantur, sed propter peccatum dimitiere consuevi. [The… — Mondino de' Liuzzi Mondino dei Luzzi Mundinus de Leuciis Copy Share Image
You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. ... Morpheous is my last companion ; without… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health,… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image