Top 1200 Scientific Fact Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.

I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but it’s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

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

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.

An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.

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

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.

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

In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.

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

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

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.

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

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

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

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

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said "hell" and "damn" in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

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

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact that progress that was made for people of color, for women, for LGBTQ people, are all at risk.

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.

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.

When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

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.

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

In fact, when you try to use [Hans Rosling] data to predict the future, all sorts of problems arise. But what it does do is say, hey, just catch your breath a minute and see what's really been going on. We do have reason to feel good about the fact we've made progress.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.

No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.

There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.

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

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.

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

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

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

When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood in a very narrow way, which I think is wrong. This is not to diminish your sense of truth in what you believe but to acknowledge the fact that we live in a world where we need to deal with pluralism. It's a fact.

Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.

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

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

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

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

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