Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes,… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“You can remain faultless only when you constantly remain as a nimit [instrument, one of the doer and not the whole and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries.… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“I am not going to apologize for scientific discovery that prevents the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues… — Shinya Yamanaka Copy Share Image
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that… — Ann Veneman Copy Share Image
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people. — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited. — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image