The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered… — Marguerite Rawalt Copy Share Image
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
It is very unlikely that Uganda will face a chaotic scenario similar to that in Syria or other places. Incidentally, doctors, scientists,… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
The Japanese scientists just found a 25,000-year-old mammoth in the ice in Siberia, and they're about to clone it... You think the… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision. — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's… — Mitchell A. Wilson Copy Share Image
A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt . We are all his family.” — Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond Copy Share Image
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image