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"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Plato 4.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Natural selection, the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process that Darwin discovered, has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker." Richard Dawkins 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Paley's argument is made with passionate sincerity and is informed by the best biological scholarship of his day, but it is wrong, gloriously and utterly wrong." Richard Dawkins 2.8333333333333335 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." Richard P. Feynman 4.9186046511627906 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it." Richard P. Feynman 4.894736842105263 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in." Richard P. Feynman 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" Stephen Hawking 4.636363636363637 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?" Stephen Hawking 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired." Stephen Hawking 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." Terry Pratchett 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science." Thomas Jefferson 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge." Thomas Edison 4.583333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What is now proved was once only imagined." William Blake 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. 'Guess' is too short a word for a professor." William Jennings Bryan 3.375 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day." William Jennings Bryan 3.625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." Woody Allen 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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