Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the... →
Jared Diamond
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000... →
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have... →
Junot Diaz
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and... →
Philip K. Dick
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling... →
Denis Diderot
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
Whitfield Diffie
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural... →
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
Wilhelm Dilthey
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no... →