Properly Scientific Quotes
- The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be… — John Stuart Mill
- Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision. — Giorgio Agamben
- Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical… — Stephen Jay Gould
- Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest… — G. M. Trevelyan