Top 1200 Scientific Advancement Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in matters of belief. It was offended by a burden on one's religion. The Establishment Clause can be understood as designed in part to ensure that the advancement of religion comes only from the voluntary efforts of its proponents and not from support by the state. Religious groups are to prosper or perish on the intrinsic merit and attraction of their beliefs and practices.

Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

This president Barack Obama has done more for the LGBT community than any president in history. It's just an objective fact. And his legacy is secure in terms of the advancement of the rights of the LGBT community, from 'Don't Ask', 'Don't Tell' to his support for overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, and of course marriage equality, work on HIV and AIDS, and other things.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.

The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

Unfortunately, I have two facets to my makeup, and that is both scientific and artistic. By doing medicine, I was only answering one of those sides.

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today.

It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and employment in the U.S. since the formation of the Fed.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.

I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.

Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?

[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'

Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit.

I asked, "What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?" And the majority, the item that polled the most, was Hillary Clinton's run for President. Can you believe that? Women saw that as a breakthrough in something very, very important. She didn't win. And I think another thing that her race did was it showed sexism in our society.

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.