Science Writer

🇺🇸Carl Sagan

Science

1934–1996

"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."

🇬🇧Richard Dawkins

Science

atheism

b. 1941

"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

Isaac Asimov

Science

1920–1992

"A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."

🇺🇸Bill Bryson

Literature

b. 1951

"It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off."

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science

1777–1855

"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."

🇺🇸Michio Kaku

Science

b. 1947

"Killer asteroids are nature's way of asking, 'How's that space program coming along?'" - Anonymous"

"If poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility, then science is tranquility recollected in emotion: a struggle to think carefully in the swirl of passionate curiosity."

🇺🇸Theodore Gray

Science

b. 1964

"OK, maybe being an international pop star is more exciting than the life of an element collector, but it has its moments."

🇭🇷Snježana Kordić

Education

b. 1964

"Publications by Snježana Kordić at ResearchGate"

🇺🇸Martin Gardner

Literature

1914–2010

"Mathematical magic combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick."

🇬🇧David Suzuki

Education

b. 1936

"f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere."

🇺🇸Alan Guth

Science

b. 1947

"It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch."

🇺🇸Joseph Stiglitz

Politics

New Keynesian economics

b. 1943

"An early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability — the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns."