The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied.… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish… — William Henry Preece 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
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image