The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
Evidence-based reasoning underpins all scientific thinking, and it involves testing hypotheses or theories against data. Validating a theory requires replicable measurements from… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
“In so many introductory science classes, the chemist [Dudley Herschbach] observed, students encounter what they see as "a frozen body of dogma"… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Strunk was born in 1869, and today’s writers cannot base their craft exclusively on the advice of a man who developed his… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in… — William Herbert Hobbs Copy Share Image
“Every day, without exception, the scientific community discovers, uncovers or realizes something new that serves to debunk one of the long-held beliefs… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
“I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Einstein is one of our robots who controls the substitution division, we had to develop a robotic scientist as the tasks required… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“don’t believe in the truth,” he says. “I’m a scientist. I believe in questions and the best answer we have right now.… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It should not be claimed that there is no art or science of training up to virtue. Remember how absurd it would… — John M Gregory Copy Share Image
Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is… — Timothy R Minnich Copy Share Image
Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Modern science was born through the Scientific Revolution in the 11th/17th century at a time when, as we saw earlier, European philosophy… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world.… — Roger Helmer Copy Share Image
Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“I call you metaphysicians because you reason metaphysically," Ernest went on. "Your method of reasoning is the opposite to that of science.… — Jack London Copy Share Image