“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an apple, that you can devour in a few bites - truth is an onion, peel off one layer,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I always ate healthy, but it wasn't scientific. Now it's a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change,… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
