American Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without…

— Isaac Asimov

“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at…

— Thomas Hager

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

— Irving Langmuir

“Ideas change the world only when they change our behaviour.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am…

— Alexander Humboldt

“With scientific discovery and invention proceeding, we are told, at the rate of geometric progression, a generally passive and culture-bound people cannot cope with…

— Carl R. Rogers

“The ultimate lesson is that science isn’t special – at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and there were…

— Michael Crichton

“So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.”

— Diane Setterfield

“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

“We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has…

— Charles Babbage