Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main… — George Lois Copy Share Image
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years… — Steve Gleason Copy Share Image
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Once one realizes that magick works, and that it works based on scientific factors, the next step is to hone one's skill… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an apple, that you can devour in a few bites - truth is an onion, peel off one layer,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some… — Hermann Kolbe Copy Share Image
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation . . . I am an infidel… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image