Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“How can we assert and test hypotheses if there are no such things as assertions that can be evaluated as true or… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to… — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...]… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without… — Alfred Cobban Copy Share Image
I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“You wanna know what’s happening to New York?” he asked. “I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“BYSTANDER EFFECT: Phenomenon documented by social scientists in which people are less likely to help someone in distress when there are others… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“underneath the report about a shortage of scientists was another which said that a professor of acoustics at Salford University has proved… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam From Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.” — Martin Waldseemüller Copy Share Image
I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
“scientific study and reflection had taught us that the known universe of three dimensions embraces the merest fraction of the whole cosmos… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
![“Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method… I hope [to] initiate a…” quote by Ian Hacking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bb/ian-hacking-9085_experimental-science_philosophers-of-science-constantly-discu_2595149.jpg)
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