Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost… — Dan Egan Copy Share Image
“Science requires both observation and comprehension. Without observation there are no facts to be comprehended; without comprehension science is mere documentation. The… — Occam s razor Copy Share Image
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidences) has to be kept in your laksha (awareness as the Self). You should not take its support wrongfully.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Be careful who you let define your good. —Lois McMaster Bujold, science fiction writer • Why is learning to sift through possibilities… — Whitney Johnson Copy Share Image
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming… — Stephanie Kwolek Copy Share Image
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.… — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Copy Share Image
Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
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There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel… — Dudley R. Herschbach Copy Share Image
I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should… — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“ Tout homme qui reçoit une éducation libérale compte aujourd'hui la chimie parmi les objets les plus indispensables de ses études. Everyone… — Antoine-François De Fourcroy Copy Share Image
“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
“Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions… — Don Young Copy Share Image
“Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
“I had written this paper on pancake numbers with help from my adviser, Manuel Blum, who's a well-known computer scientist, and we… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. [Referring to the diverse holdings of the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
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