The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist. — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St.… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished.… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image