I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as GALILEO GALILEI Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search DAVID H. HUBEL Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Science would not be what it is if there had not been a NORMAN ROBERT CAMPBELL We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistanc...
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WILLIAM STEWART ROSS The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living ERNST W. MAYR ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN If it were Hegel, I m...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON I sit with Sha...
W.E.B. DU BOIS His true monument lies...
JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS You could give Ar...
RICHARD DAWKINS Napoleon, whe...
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existence...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proo...
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THOMAS A. EDISON ...only one man lived who could understand MURIEL RUKEYSER Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, RALPH WALDO EMERSON If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Shocked? I consider Bob...
WALT WHITMAN Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, m...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL If I were forced to compare GEORGE ORWELL {On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, ERNST W. MAYR ...and his analysis pro...
W.W. ROUSE BALL We hold these truths to be self-evident.
{Franklin's edit to the assertion in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Conquests will come and go but NAPOLéON BONAPARTE In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Read Euler, read PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE Interviewer: Didn't Saga...
ANN DRUYAN I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Plato...
THOMAS JEFFERSON He shrank from even the s...
MONCURE D. CONWAY Paine suffered then,...
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ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Paine was a grand fe...
WALT WHITMAN He is a type of our best ...
WALT WHITMAN According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a tran...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Our friend Dirac ha...
WOLFGANG ERNST PAULI The name of EUGENE V. DEBS Es gibt keinen Gott und WOLFGANG ERNST PAULI This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember...
KARL PEARSON One night while KLIPH NESTEROFF My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG The genius of Lapla...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN When {Born and
EDWARD UHLER CONDON As you say of yourself, I too am an THOMAS JEFFERSON Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class syste...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I never tire of reading ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times...
JOHN ADAMS With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fou...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Willar...
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking a...
CHINA MIéVILLE I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of LUTHER BURBANK I have always been interested in this THOMAS A. EDISON The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher PHILIP K. DICK What Pascal overlo...
WALTER KAUFMANN I have always regarded P...
THOMAS A. EDISON {Bjørnson on the great BJøRNSTJERNE BJøRNSON Dewar's rule in hi...
KURT MENDELSSOHN I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by THOMAS JEFFERSON [As a young teenager] ERIC TEMPLE BELL He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Aristippus FRANCIS BACON I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to pa...
ERNST W. MAYR Much later, when I discussed the problem with GEORGE GAMOW I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of WERNER HEISENBERG Accordingly, we find Eu...
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL Quantum phenomena do not occur in a ASHER PERES As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dod...
J.D. BERNAL [Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Naz...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS {Stockton, a playwright who performed plays about RICHARD F. STOCKTON If I may paraphrase Ho...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The assumption that D...
TIMOTHY MORTON One scientific epoch ended and another began with ALBERT EINSTEIN He had all the attributes...
THOMAS A. EDISON Jack Paar t...
KLIPH NESTEROFF As to Bell's talking...
ELISHA GRAY In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the MONCURE D. CONWAY When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking a...
CHINA MIéVILLE I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George,...
MARK TWAIN He had all the a...
THOMAS A. EDISON Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT Burlesque had stock routines and it was no big deal if one comic had the same act as another. But no...
KLIPH NESTEROFF There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
JOHN ROGERS The year that PYOTR KAPITSA This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or JOHN ADAMS