War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Textbooks, however, being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to be rewritten in whole or in part whenever the… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
“Galton’s gospel of eugenics found fertile soil in Britain, in the intellectual salons of Europe, and in the United States. Beginning in… — Joseph Loconte Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ice cores, which are long cylinders scientists extract from glaciers, ice sheets or ice caps, contain gas bubbles, pollen, dust particles, or… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Loving kindness is a form of love that truly is an ability, and, as research scientists have show, it can be learned.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Mormonism is sui generis—that is to say, it offers its own unique set of questions and answers for the world that overlaps… — Patrick Q. Mason Copy Share Image
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The wonderful science behind taking the chastity pill is to preserve honor, respect, purity and worth. Again, the value of a woman’s… — Sadiqua Hamdan Copy Share Image
“One of the first people I interviewed was Alvy Ray Smith, a charismatic Texan with a Ph.D. in computer science and a… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you… — Paul Ehrenfest Copy Share Image
“Contrary to general belief, stars don’t twinkle. There is only one star that sparkles that scientists can agree on. It twinkles so… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and… — George Gerbner Copy Share Image
“reminded him of the great scientists who have been Christians—from Newton and Kepler to Pavlov and the discoverer of anaesthetics, Sir James… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
“It's bitten her!' he cried. 'It's Bitten her! It's bitten her! Calm down! Get moving! Call an ambulance! Call the police! Call… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“I had entered the Green [of Glasgow] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was… — James Watt Copy Share Image
If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave… — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“In Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness, Susan Smalley and Diana Winston argue that, “Learning to live mindfully does… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he… — Paul Sabatier Copy Share Image
“The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The great discovery… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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