I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
