Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Professor J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. A pioneering and broad-ranging thinker, he developed a… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“in market research: as businesses are faced with a “river” of continuously generated data, the goal of research is not to expensively… — David L Rogers Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as… — Frances M. Beal Copy Share Image
Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin… — Ascanio Sobrero Copy Share Image
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more… — Eric Johnston Copy Share Image
“A scientist places an ad in a Paris newspaper offering a free horoscope. He receives about 150 replies, each, as requested, detailing… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“underwater cities, and robot personal assistants. From the 1930s on, science fiction pulp magazines and comic books promised us that by the… — James Kakalios Copy Share Image
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation.… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
“It would be a kindness, by the way, and a service to history, if you could please rid yourself of the legend… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“Although that might seem inconsetuqntial, a 1 percent difference can be significantly big in cosmology. And the recently launched Planck observatory should… — Shing-Tung Yau Copy Share Image
As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
The truth is that once you get down on the trading floor, you find that the traders come from all walks of… — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
“I need to start thinking more like an engineer and less like a scientist: I need to think about what works, not… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
“Young people, especially young women, often ask me for advice. Here it is, valeat quantum. Do not undertake a scientific career in… — Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Copy Share Image
Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
“Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
