We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A… — Sune Bergstrom Copy Share Image
prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They… — Linda Wertheimer Copy Share Image
What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Real scientists are required to play by the rules without exception. Creationists follow the rules of science only so long as it… — Frank Zindler 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
If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees.… — James Delingpole 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
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact… — Metiria Turei Copy Share Image
Several respected climate scientists have told me that there would be even more vocal skeptics if they were not afraid of losing… — Peter Friedman Copy Share Image
Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist'… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
“For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers… — Michael Eisen Copy Share Image
Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps,… — Pierre De Fermat Copy Share Image
It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads… — Deborah Copaken Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great… — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
