Scientific Quotes

1781 Scientific quotes by 1069 unique authors

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell
To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only. — Richard P. Feynman
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found… — Unknown Author
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike. — Jacob Bronowski
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. — Maurice Kendall
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that… — Guy Debord
You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that. — David Barton
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of… — Judy Biggert
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting… — M. Scott Peck
At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in… — Karl Mannheim
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more… — Wilfred Trotter
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by… — Mircea Eliade
One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed… — Thabo Mbeki
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists — Tony Abbott
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why… — William O. Douglas
The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter — Ed Markey
Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working… — Connie Willis
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of… — George E. Brown, Jr.
It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of… — Louis Pasteur
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant… — George Soros
Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful… — George Soros
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the… — Linus Pauling

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