In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a forensic scientist for a long time. It's like putting the pieces of a puzzle together. Solving mysteries… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist.… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
People think with climate change what's going to happen is things are just going to get hotter. But that isn't really the… — Susan Casey Copy Share Image
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
I don't know why people feel the need to do this to me, but my friend asked my dad, 'Aren't your proud… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the… — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly. Perhaps they… — Agapi Stassinopoulos 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
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Our bodies are the subject of many experiments, but these experiments on the space station sometimes take years because in order for… — Anne McClain Copy Share Image
“[Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Scientists have just built the world's biggest supercollider, and they're doing experiments to see what makes up protons. I hope that if… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality.… — James Gleick 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
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