Top 1200 Scientific Fact Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith . Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic .

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

The fact that I'm still able to wrestle on the indies and yet still do my stuff in NXT, and the fact that I wrestled in front of 15,000 people at the Barclays Center at TakeOver, and then, the following weekend, I was still doing indie shows, is wild.

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

Isis want to destroy the knowledge that Islam is a beautiful, scientific and intelligent culture, and we are way ahead of them.

One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

I played a medium on Ghost Whisperer for six years, and the mediums never complained at the fact that I had cleavage while I was crossing people over into the light. In fact, they were super-excited that a hot person was out there representing the medium.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.