Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“Commonalities, which need to be celebrated, exist among creative people – as they do in the sciences, the sports or in many… — Ellen Palestrant Copy Share Image
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher… — Gilbert Newton Lewis Copy Share Image
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine… — Frederick Reines Copy Share Image
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible… — Charles D. Broad Copy Share Image
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
