Scientific Knowledge Quotes
71 quotes by 60 authors
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
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All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
— Konrad Lorenz
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
— Thomas A. Edison
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The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to…
— Bertrand Russell
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The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
— John B. S. Haldane
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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.…
— E. O. Wilson
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All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling…
— Richard P. Feynman
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During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800,…
— Isaac Asimov
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Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
— Oliver Heaviside
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a…
— Thomas Kuhn
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More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
— Konrad Lorenz
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In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition,…
— Earnest Hooton
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On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise…
— Karl Jaspers
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I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.
— Charles Hard Townes
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Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present…
— Barry Price
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...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.
— Mohammed Arkoun
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Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
— David Landes
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Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the…
— Adolf Hitler
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