When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private… — Donald Bren Copy Share Image
I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer.… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
There are some very powerful contributions to knowledge in the scientific world or the legal world, but art is singular. That's why… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“..."science" as defined in our culture has a philosophical bias that needs to be exposed. On the one hand, science is empirical.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless… — Allen Drury Copy Share Image
There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Terence McKenna pointed out that "the profundity of [hallucinogenic inebriation] and its potential for a positive feedback into the process of reorganizing… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Science of the kind I criticize tends to assert that everything is explicable, that whatever has not been explained will be explained--and,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in… — John Ashworth Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money.… — Patrick Michaels Copy Share Image
Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“In this modern day, when only what we see is allowed to have certainity, and when scientific data seems to hold the… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Copy Share Image
“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the… — Richard Trevithick Copy Share Image
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“When Albert Einstein was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, an eager young newspaper reporter approached him… — Robert L. Wolke Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected,… — Edmund Pellegrino Copy Share Image
We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over… — arthur schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right… — Euclid Copy Share Image