“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“A plug for the quantitative sciences: The reality is, most humans manage to feed, clothe, and amuse themselves, and yet are not… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It was fun figuring out the science of the world as much as we wanted to figure out, and then playing fast… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
“structure has been defined as ‘any assemblage of materials which is intended to sustain loads’, and the study of structures is one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in… — David W. Oxtoby Copy Share Image
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Nobody in the scientific or medical world thinks that homosexuality is something that people choose. It's something we are. Now, I didn't… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A lot of scientists are hesitant to get involved with industry. It's seen as, you know, getting in bed with the devil,… — David Andrew Sinclair Copy Share Image
“As a boy, I grew up in a time of invention, of aspiration and wonderful dreams, and to be a scientist, a… — Claire North Copy Share Image
Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of… — Evald Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“Few exchanges in the history of science have leaped so boldly into the future as this one, which occurred a thousand years… — S. Frederick Starr Copy Share Image
Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun. { After his banker questioned the value of… — Gustav Kirchhoff Copy Share Image
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain… — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness,… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
“In the scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some- times used pejoratively to refer to a vague or ill-formulated belief. I believe… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before.… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image