science

"As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy."

"Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That choice, however, makes it difficult to see scientific development as a process of accretion."

"Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same r…"

"I am, I discover in late middle age, a work in progress."

"There is an age old prejudice the world over to effect that women talk too much. But is this really a weakness? Could it not in fact be a strength? Recent scientific research on the human brain has re…"

"Wind is a flowing wave of air, moving hither and thither indefinitely. It is produced when heat meets moisture, the rush of heat generating a mighty current of air. That this is the fact we may learn …"

"The reflection upon my situation, and that of this army, produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in, on a thousand accounts; fewer…"

"The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world."

"A gunner owes consideration to the birds and to the land itself. He usually does not own the deed, but in a strange way he possesses a grouse covert as he is possessed by it, holding special title to …"

"Everard sighed, switched off his conscience, and began lying."

"It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts."

"In the field of science fiction or fantasy, morality—when it enters a book at all—is almost always either thoughtlessly liberal or thoughtlessly illiberal or just plain thoughtless ."

"Any progress in the theory of partial differential equations must also bring about a progress in Mechanics."

"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a …"

"Cybernetics offers a scientific approach to the cussedness of organisms, suggests how their behaviours can be catalysed and the mystique and rule of thumb banished."

"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America."

"The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained to…"

"It turned out that big-bucks science had been a purely mid-twentieth-century phenomenon, starting with the Manhattan Project and ending with the fall of the Soviet Union."

"A very large number of optical phenomena have been examined by various experimenters with a view to detecting an influence on them of the Earth's velocity of translation. The only such influence that …"

"I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces. I am not a giant physically; I shrink from pain and filth and vermin…"