A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteri…

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to …

Development of Western Science is based on two great achievements - the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosopher…

Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it …

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.