Scientific Quotes
1781 Scientific quotes by 1069 unique authors
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We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,
— John F. Kerry
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It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to…
— Wilfred Bion
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Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as…
— Hannah Arendt
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
— Edward Abbey
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Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. TheĀ GospelsĀ on…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
— Sigmund Freud
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In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible…
— B.F. Skinner
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Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.
— Hannah Arendt
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Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
— Homer
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The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted...…
— Ronald Reagan
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Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence…
— Charles Babbage
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As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those…
— Vannevar Bush
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More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
— Saul Bellow
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that…
— George Soros
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The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
— Paul Watson
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What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous…
— James E. Faust
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There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.
— Eric Hoffer
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Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one…
— Jennifer Michael Hecht
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I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
— Rudolf Carnap
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The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
— Al Gore
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