I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in… — Walter A. Shewhart Copy Share Image
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When I reflect with what slow and limited supplies the stream of science hath hitherto descended to us, how difficult to be… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Divine Hiddenness Argument against God’s Existence Divine Hiddenness does not necessarily mean that the Ultimate Being hides; it instead means that our… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
“(...) How many ladies have there been, and still are, who deserve place among the learned; and who are more capable of… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“We have no rational evidence that there exist another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
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“Ultimately, all science is correlation. No matter how effectively it may use one variable to describe another, its equations will always ultimately… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings.… — Russell Blackford Copy Share Image
“This is not science fiction. Around the world, 50,000 men with prostate cancer have been treated with focused ultrasound. Over 36,000 women… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“When we come under the spell of the deeper domain of technology, its economic character and even its power aspect fascinate us… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“Recent scientific research reveals that the human system is capable of producing its own narcotic if it is maintained in a certain… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“By asking why, by seeking meaning (not in any final sense, but in the immediate sense of use or purpose), Darwin found… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“The researchers worked with more than three thousand young gamers in total, and in all three studies they reached the same conclusion:… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“It is the life sciences that concluded that organisms are algorithms. If this is not the case – if organisms function in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The President's science advisor, who is a former Harvard professor named Holdren, is involved in the email scandals and covering up the… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people,… — Wilbur Olin Atwater Copy Share Image
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