I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My first interaction with William Shakespeare was an American production and there was an actress, playing Puck, who sounded like Mickey Mouse.… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many… — Alison Gopnik 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
My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned… — Phil Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are… — Elias Zerhouni Copy Share Image
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts,… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did. — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much.… — Corey Flintoff Copy Share Image
These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image