“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“There is an idea - strange, haunting, evocative - one of the most exquisite conjectures in science and religion. It is entirely… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame.… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
“We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I had to remind myself that Islam had once swept north as far as the gates of Vienna; that when the haggadah… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“A single gram of antiparticles combined with a gram of normal particles would release more than 40 kilotonnes of explosive force, which… — Jorge Cham Copy Share Image
I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
“In contradistinction to the underestimation in the field of rocket science and the aerospace industry, Parsons' accomplishments in the arcane sciences have… — John Carter Copy Share Image
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it.… — Harlow Shapley Copy Share Image
“Fruit fly scientists, God bless ‘em, are the big exceptions. Morgan’s team always picked sensibly descriptive names for mutant genes, like ‘speck,’… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive… — Kane X. Faucher Copy Share Image
“Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“In a remarkable letter to the director of the Vatican Observatory, John Paul II wrote: The church does not propose that science should… — Ilia Delio Copy Share Image
“I’ve got news for you, Aves. When a guy says he wants to take you out in the name of science ,… — Kelly Oram Copy Share Image
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“All the evidence from the science of complexity says that given certain clear parameters...communities or teams will become self-organizing. They will be… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
“Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In… — Brenda Wilmoth Lerner Copy Share Image
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't think America can just drill itself out of its current energy situation. We don't need to destroy the environment to… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
“The difference between theism and new atheist science is the difference between mystery and certainty. Certainty is a relic, an atavism, a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Fantasy and science fiction are closely allied in publishing, since both categories posit worlds that are not reality. The SF editor is… — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
“The real nemesis of the modern economy is ecological collapse. Both scientific progress and economic growth take place within a brittle biosphere,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
