In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The most recent science including from Jim Hansen, the foremost climate scientist, suggests that we could see as much as, according to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and… — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets, — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image