Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Hume is indeed sceptical about the possibility of metaphysical insights that go deeper than science can, he is not at all sceptical… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Sciences have the view of looking at the world as individual pieces and this has been going on now for about 300… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
“We’re a clandestine network of scientists, military personnel, and a handful of people in senior government. But unlike the Illuminati, we didn’t… — Roderick Gordon Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the… — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“Oh! science! It has reconsidered everything. For thebody and the soul − the viaticum − we now have medicineand philosophy, old wives’… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
“ME has been classified as a neurological condition at least since 1968 (this should have been 1969)…however, for all these years, sufferers… — Countess of Mar Copy Share Image
“in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“IT WASN’T A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. It should have been, but that’s the weather for you. For every mad scientist who’s… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and… — David Flynn Copy Share Image
“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight.… — George Armitage Miller Copy Share Image
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by… — R Abindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Okay, this is formally beyond fiction.” Sherri began rocking on the bed. She laughed uncomfortably. “Is there a category beyond fiction? Science… — Gary Williams Copy Share Image
“One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image