“...there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do...Well, a philosopher can always contradict other philosophers.”— William James, theatlantic.com
“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”— Ben Shneiderman, amazon.com
“Trump’s political career began in advocacy of birtherism. But long before that, he had made his worldview clear.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“It’s high time to rescue ‘intelligent design’ from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.”— Shel Silverstein, theatlantic.com
“Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.”— Frederick Sanger, nobelprize.org
“Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.”— Vera Rubin, en.wikiquote.org
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.”— Sydney Brenner, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
“I can calculate the movement of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of men.”— Isaac Newton, amazon.com
“I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.”— Lawrence M. Krauss, scientificamerican.com
“Growing up in the 1920s and ’30s, I never expected to see so much happen in the span of a few decades.”— Arthur C. Clarke, spectrum.ieee.org
“You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there’s a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It’s better if we don’t understand anything… and know that we don’t, tha…”— Noam Chomsky, goodreads.com
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“Science built skyscrapers and airplanes. But only religion can bring the two together.”— nittinghoa, reddit.com
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying”— Arthur C. Clarke, amazon.com