“Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so… — Nicole Oresme Copy Share Image
I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will… — Robert S. Mulliken Copy Share Image
There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The solution has been to shift the totem of legitimacy from premises to procedures. We know an outcome is right not because… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The evolutionists, piercing beneath the show of momentary stability, discovered, hidden in rudimentary organs, the discarded rubbish of the past. They detected… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy.… — David Robert Whitehouse Copy Share Image
All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“The Happiest Man in The World The French interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama, former academic and dedicated meditator Matthieu Ricard, came… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“ Qu'une goutee de vin tombe dans un verre d'eau; quelle que soit la loi du movement interne du liquide, nous verrons… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“What was the nature of the universe into which she had been born? Why did it exist at all? If it had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“Yes," Bitterblue said. "I suppose you could convert everything into minutes. Twelve times sixty is seven hundred twenty, and fifteen times fifty… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think I may have too much of a scientific mindset and am always looking for the caveats and qualifications in any… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus.… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A paradigm shift is the best a scientist can hope for. Whenever I smell an opportunity like that, I go after it.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods -… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
“Science has proved there's nothing to the talk of ghosts and spirits, no proof anything like the soul exists. And to my… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“The late Ralf Dahrendorf, an Anglo-German political scientist well placed to appreciate the scale of the changes he had seen in his… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part… — Virpi Hameen-Anttila Copy Share Image
The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state,… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
I have one of the self-driving Teslas; it drives itself periodically. It's a marvel of science, but it's still frightening. I think… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
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