Science and Technology

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."

Chamfort "Maxims and Considerations"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

David Cronenberg "Cronenberg on Cronenberg"

Life and Death

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 8)

"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."

Werner von Braun

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

William James

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Wilhelm Meister's Travels"

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"If words were invented to conceal thought, I think that newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 6.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."

Albert Einstein

Art and Culture

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Politics and Diplomacy

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "A Study in Scarlet"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Sir William Bragg

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."

Marshall McLuhan

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy-the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."

Voltaire "A Treatise on Toleration"

God and Religion

Normality and Madness

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"God made integers, all else is the work of man."

Leopold Kronecker

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"

Iris Murdoch "The Book and the Brotherhood"

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

John C. Dvorak

Science and Technology

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

Thomas Carlyle

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."

Denis Diderot

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."

Raoul Vaneigem "The Revolution of Everyday Life"

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

Miguel de Unamuno "The Tragic Sense of Life"

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."

Louis Pasteur

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

Johann von Neumann

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

William James "The Letters of William James"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Philosophy begins in wonder."

Plato "Theatetus"

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques "The New Eloise"

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."

Thomas Henry Huxley "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact."

Thomas Henry Huxley "Collected Essays"

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."

Joseph Roux "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

Henry Brooks Adams (about philosophy)

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to."

Henry Brooks Adams

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them."

Voltaire

Science and Technology

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things [...] have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower."

Edith Hamilton "The Greek Way"

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Carl Sagan

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Dreams and Desires

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."

Brillat-Savarin-Anthelme "Physiologie du Gout"

Happiness

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form."

Evan Esar "Esar's Comic Dictionary"

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"[Hypothesis] Something murdered by facts."

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Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)