One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity… — Robyn Mundell Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
“Religion has a fanaticism problem - center religion on metaphor, and problem solved. Science has a freezing problem - center science on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California`s water. Scientists say the state is… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Every day we put another 110 million tons of global warming pollution into the sky as if it's an open sewer, and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image