Electric Quote by Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in…

— Oliver Heaviside

“He wrote up the mathematics and everything fitted together. James had shown how the electrical and magnetic forces which we experience could have their…

— Basil Mahon

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me…

— Pieter Zeeman

If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think we should start questioning…

— George F. R. Ellis

“MERE ACCUMULATION OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PROOF.”

— Terry Pratchett

After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from…

— Raymond E. Fowler

“These and similar examples are easy enough to uncover, and they make two crucial points: first, good science does not require experiments, it can…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful, adding,…our approach is not entirely empirical. —John Mitchell, principal research scientist at…

— Alan Carlin

This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so on, but…

— Margaret Wertheim

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

— Lee Smolin

“once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual”

— Stephen King

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

— Paul Ricoeur