Creeds Quote by Joseph John Thomson Download Open image “A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.” — Joseph John Thomson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creeds Science Scientific theory Theory Tools
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Religious creeds are a great obstacle to any full sympathy between the outlook of the scientist and the outlook which religion is so often… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up,… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
The whole mass of any body is just the mass of ether surrounding the body which is carried along by the Faraday tubes associated… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
I venture to give an alternative method of regarding the processes occurring in the electric field, which I have often found useful and which… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
