One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory. Brian Greene dimensiondirectlyfeature share on social
Statistics is the grammar of science. Karl Pearson grammarsciencestatistic Change image and share on social
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing. Henry Petroski engineerknowscience Change image and share on social
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. Bill Dana blooddiscontinuetype Change image and share on social
When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it. Mario J. Molina bathroomborrowchemistry share on social
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. Ada Lovelace discovereminentlyfaculty Change image and share on social
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green. Helena Blavatsky arcticcirclecontinent Change image and share on social
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug. Neil deGrasse Tyson astrophysicbiologyboundary share on social
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Linus Pauling airfactfly Change image and share on social
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. Albert Einstein aimaxiomcover Change image and share on social