“Schools often fail to simultaneously train students how to be skeptical of claims and how to embrace the weight of evidence.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“There was a research article I read with the headline, ‘Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,’ because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Scientists recently experimented with a worm that they were able to shrink by withholding food. By periodically shrinking the worm so that it was in continual growth, the worm's life was prolonged indefinitely. Perhaps if a junkie could keep himself in a constant state of kicking, he would live to a…”— William Burroughs, amazon.com
“If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.”— Stephen Hawking, nytimes.com
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org
“We are the recipients of scientific method. We not only can luxuriate in its weed-like growth, but we can each of us be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. And we will.”— Dr. Kary B. Mullis, karymullis.com
“Because if everything were explained, there would be nothing left to figure out.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The spectacular truth is — and this is something that your DNA has known all along— the very atoms of your body — the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and on and on — were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you…”— Gerald D. Waxman, amazon.com
“They say the planet is dying – but the planet is not dying, it just has a major infestation of us.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com
“Whether or not we can create psychological effects as a result of working with imagery, it appears that sometimes our thoughts can have effects on our immune systems as found in a field of investigation that has come to be known as psychoneuroimmunology (O'Regan, 1983). In one study, rats were given…”— Imants Baruss, amazon.com
“Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would 'lief' or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, w…”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com
“We are actually blaming weather patterns on man-made causes. First, the so-called “experts” told us we were responsible for global warming, but then, when temperatures started dropping, scientists began referring to these variations as “climate change.””— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“It is not reality's problem, however, that it has immeasurable processes. Rather, it is the problem of scientism, which limits nature to the measurable.”— Ede Frecska,