Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by… — Pierre Mac Orlan Copy Share Image
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on… — Alfred E. Perlman Copy Share Image
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image