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“The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.” — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“My science is based in voraciously wandering fact, luscious speculation, and spontaneous theory with a dash of prevarication. All of which are most likely… — J. DeWayne Pierce Copy Share Image
What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more. — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their… — Ruth Hubbard Copy Share Image
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts. — Robert Barany Copy Share Image
Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The most important scientific concept is that an assertion is often an empirical question, settled by collecting evidence. The plural of anecdote is not… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“establishment. In 1966, the Dutch geologist M. G. Rutten could write, in a charmingly antiquated style that has passed forever from the scientific journals:” — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“Rather surprisingly, to anyone who is most familiar with textbook mitochondria, many simple single-celled eukaryotes have mitochondria that operate in the absence of oxygen.… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“Pigments such as haemoglobin are coloured because they absorb light of particular colours (bands of light, as in a rainbow) and reflect back light… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“Energy and life go hand in hand. If you stop breathing, you will not be able to generate the energy you need for staying… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“In an average person, ATP is produced at a rate of 9 × 1020 molecules per second, which equates to a turnover rate (the… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“But whatever our beliefs, this richness of understanding should be a cause for marvel and celebration.” — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“One mitochondrion contains tens of thousands of copies of each respiratory complex. A single cell contains hundreds or thousands of mitochondria. Your 40 trillion… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“This was difficult to prove as most hydrogenosomes have lost their entire genome, but it is now established with some certainty.1 In other words,… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“Matters came to a head after 1918, when the French scientist Paul Portier published his rhetorical masterpiece Les Symbiotes. He was nothing if not… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“Metabolically active cells, such as those of the liver, kidneys, muscles, and brain, have hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, making up some 40 per… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
“Galton’s gospel of eugenics found fertile soil in Britain, in the intellectual salons of Europe, and in the United States. Beginning in the early… — Joseph Loconte Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
“Love. Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image