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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.
Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.
Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.
I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.
Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still.
The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.
Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'
[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.
I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.
To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.