“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
“In the late 1970s, scientists working on gene-silencing discovered that the attachment of a small molecule-a methyl group-to DNA was correlated with… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Scientists tend to focus on what they don't know more than what they do know. And there are a lot of things… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In summary, most scientists and sci-fi authors considering cosmic settlement have in my opinion been overly pessimistic in ignoring the possibility of… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Proof for the existence of God cannot come directly from the physical sciences. It’s not that scientists aren’t intelligent people. It’s simply… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“They forget that love is not a science but an inherent state of mind; they forget that sex is practiced by animals… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The difference between Lorentz's Transformation in Lorentz's theory and Lorentz's Transformation in Einstein's Special Relativity is not mathematical but ontological and epistemological… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Nescience is the basis of everything, it creates everything by an action repeated every moment, it produces this and any world, since… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science.… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathetical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Ayurveda is the science of life and it has a very basic, simple kind of approach, which is that we are part… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“For us, scientific literacy constitutes the knowledge you need to understand public issues. It is a mix of facts, vocabulary, concepts, history,… — Robert M. Hazen Copy Share Image
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Setup: Alicia (the scientist) is speaking to an elementary school class about what she does. She’s just taken scads of questions from… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so,… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects;… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty,… — William Osler Copy Share Image