There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate… — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
“In this modern era of cosmology, evolution, and the human genome, is there still the possibility of a richly satisfying harmony between… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Researchers have known for some time now that the cornerstone of all degenerative conditions, including brain disorders, is inflammation. But what they… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“There's no scientific basis for zombieism -- except for some experiments in the Caribbean with blowfish toxins that put people in a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
You've heard me talk about the quantum realm in Ant-Man which was certainly designed for that movie and for that story to… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
“It may be in the ubiquitous phenomenon of terrorism that one can most easily see how universal emotional processes transcend the conventional… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“few days earlier, Trump’s team of data scientists, squirreled away in an office down in San Antonio, had delivered a report titled… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital… — John F. Tierney Copy Share Image
“...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of… — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I? What am I?" roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“[...] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I believe that the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms on the grasslands of Africa gave us the model for all religions to follow.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There are times when the marvels of scientific advancement expedite our processes, making our lives easier. Modern technology provides machines that can… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts.… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image