Biologist Quote by David Papineau

The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply be messy…

— David Papineau

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets…

— Boethius

“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere…

— Stephen Senn

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the…

— Richard Dawkins

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right…

— Bertrand Russell

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

— Douglas Preston

Science is not inherently good.

— Frans de Waal

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried…

— Margaret Mead

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it…

— Ray Brassier

Science is practical philosophy.

— Rene Descartes

The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated,…

— Edwin Land

It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many…

— Hans Eysenck