Science Quote by Jordan Ellenberg Download Open image ““But the significance test that scientists use doesn’t measure importance.”” — Jordan Ellenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Science
“However, only rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The fact that establishment scientists say something doesn’t exist doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It only means that science has no effective way to… — Laurie Nadel Copy Share Image
“Significance unfortunately is a useful means toward a personal ends in the advance of science - status and widely distributed publications, a big laboratory,… — Stephen Thomas Ziliak Copy Share Image
“Scientists never study the important things. Like why some animals seem to have evolved the ability to gloat.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.” — Marcelo Gleiser Copy Share Image
“Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
“It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A scientific fact has no value to me unless it can be implemented to improve human condition.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you’re making the same mistake the army… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to the ice… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
“Galton’s gospel of eugenics found fertile soil in Britain, in the intellectual salons of Europe, and in the United States. Beginning in the early… — Joseph Loconte Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
“Love. Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
