The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living… — David Christian Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge.… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“There were other thinkers, Bowman also found, who held even more exotic views. They did not believe that really advanced beings would… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that science itself is politics. Scientific knowledge is profoundly different from political ideology. Science is an intellectual… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods.… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“We'll learn more about how the brain operates, how matter works, and what fills up empty space. But even if we evolve… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions… — American Anthropological Association Copy Share Image
“I write these words in May of 2011, the week after a huge outbreak of tornadoes killed hundreds across the American South;… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“For such people, the ruling gods are progress, science, and development. They imagine that we know so much more about the world… — William C. Chittick Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“We cannot hide behind science nor talk in the name of science while proclaiming statements that are not scientific. Such statements are… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behaviour at this time are those… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be,… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“ Babor skincare BABOR skin care products reveal the most beautiful you. BABOR cosmetics are premium products that combine state-of-the-art scientific knowledge… — Babor skincare Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are no a priori obstacles to the scientific knowledge of the mind, but the scientific knowledge of the mind is not… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide;… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
“We have a thousand machines for making war but none for making peace. We have computers and iPhone apps that can make… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Scientific theories are tested every time someone makes an observation or conducts an experiment, so it is misleading to think of science… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
“Man has two windows to his mind : through one he can see his own self as it is; through the other,… — Ghandi Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image