I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research… — Richard Willstatter Copy Share Image
Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle.… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. — Bjork Copy Share Image
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...'] — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field, — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some,… — Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image