Balanced Quote by Isaac Asimov Download Open image “If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.” — Isaac Asimov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balanced Conclusion
If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false. — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To conclude is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other… — Peter Orszag Copy Share Image
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism. — Ovadia Yosef Copy Share Image
Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous with a… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I do try to watch it. I'm not saying you have to put yourself on a diet, because I hate the word "diet." But… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
