Ants Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from…

— Thomas Jefferson

“some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.”

— Timothy Snyder

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and…

— Taylor Wilson

“If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated by motivated…

— Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.

— Simon Singh

“the dull old facts of altered climate, vanishing forests, creatures and polar ice. Profitable and poisonous agriculture obliterating biological beauty. Oceans turning to weak…

— Ian McEwan

Science, innovations and other means in which we desperately attempt to predict and control our existence are merely illusions to conceal our utter powerlessness…

— Tia Nnebo

“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue and will…

— Larry Fort

“In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody…

— Mark Christensen

“The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives in fear,…

— Seth Godin

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

— Vernor Vinge

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see…

— Anthony James Leggett