A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
“If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
“The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first… — D. R. Khashaba Copy Share Image
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“The discovery of an interaction among the four hemes made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The world of things entered your infant mind To populate that crystal cabinet. Within its walls the strangest partners met, And things… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false… — Robert K. Merton 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
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
“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
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I wanted to find out when I started working on the book—that's always fascinated me—I have great… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great… — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
“Gary Schwartz, PhD, in The Living Energy Universe: A Fundamental Discovery that Transforms Science and Medicine, states: Remember, information and energy continuously… — Tina M. Zion Copy Share Image
The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Acting on desire is more like a craft, a science, an art. It takes careful mindful practice. Be patient and quiet. Listen,… — David Barringer Copy Share Image
I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson 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
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
“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
“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
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
“He drank, for the same reason he wrote second-rate science fiction. Not to forget but to remember, to open the past and… — Joanne Harris 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)
![“He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/716/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_active_he-the-specialist-is-one-who-out-of-all_1906395.jpg)
![“For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during…” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ea/tycho-brahe-26422_accurate_for-those-observations-that-i-made-in-le_593536.jpg)
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