Top 1200 Scientific Progress Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

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

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking risks, we won't have successes.

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

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

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

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

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

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.

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

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

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

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

James Bridenstine is a climate denier with no scientific background who has made a career out of ignoring science.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

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

Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

I'm so proud to represent my hometown on the International Space Station where we conduct scientific research that can benefit all of humankind.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

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

We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.