science

"The history of science—especially physics—has in part been the tension between the natural tendency to project our everyday experience on the universe and the universe's noncompliance..."

"Natural science is throughout either a pure or an applied doctrine of motion."

"While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowlege can never be lost."

"There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story."

"People often ask me: "What is the secret to the success of the show?" "How it lasted 25 years?" I none jokingly say: "My team and Jesus", because nothing but the Hand of God has made this possible for…"

"Among the incidents of excessive force discovered by our comprehensive review, some resulted from stops or arrests that had no legal basis to begin with. Others were punitive or retaliatory in nature.…"

"Mountcastle discovered that tactile sensation is made up of several distinct modalities; for example, touch includes... hard pressure on the skin as well as a light brush... He found that each distinc…"

"Such were the lucidity of exposition and his mastery of the topic that it seems possible that, had he ever published it, the political theory of Britain would have been significantly different."

"Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation."

"If ever, in the British Islands, the useful citizen should lose these virtues, we may be sure, that for England as well as for any other country, notwithstanding the protection of the most formidable …"

"Waste: a lecture delivered at the Bristol institution for the advancement of science, literature... By John Addington Symonds, 1863"

"When you see a person squirming in the clutches of the Law, say to him: “Brother, get things straight. You let the Law talk to your conscience. Make it talk to your flesh."

"“The racial theory of Mr. Rice contains two elements: That the Untouchables are non-Aryan, non-Dravidian aboriginals. That they were conquered and subjugated by the Dravidians. This raises the whole q…"

"Internet Science Fiction Database page for Isaac Asimov"

"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the …"

"According to my theory, a dark spot in the sun is a place in its atmosphere which happens to be free from luminous decompositions ."

"In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpete…"

"Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curio…"

"Hunting for elusive dark matter is now a multibillion dollar international scientific industry."

"Conscience is deceived by the social. Our supplementary energy is to a great extent taken up with the social. It has to be detached from it. That is the most difficult of detachments."