Quotes of: Physical-science Keyword

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certa...

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But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I call it this because Jack Vance is the first author successfully and adroitly to have applied this rule in his The Dying Earth. The Jack Vance ...

Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth

Just then, just when I thought I would be free from the repeated blows to my tender head of the Stupidity Hammer, the Stupidity Hammer rose up from the shining screen, drew back, whirled hugely, and with great force and might and main slammed me righ...

Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth

Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space via Lake City housewife Mrs. Marian Keech, becomes the subject of a research team led by psychologist Leon Festin...

Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of gaps and uncertainties. In no other scientific field would it be n...

Sigmund Freud

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of...

Albert Einstein

The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't be all the trouble there was.

Cat's Cradle

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

Culpa Innata

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.

Coral: A Pessimist In Paradise

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

Emile or On Education

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

On Growth and Form

, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

The Grammar of Science

God, I swear I’ve never seen a more nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

The Guardian's Wildchild

was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.

A History Of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 To 1930

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

I'm surprised." My eyes find hers as I cock an eyebrow. "Why?" "You loved science." "I loved you more.

Breathe with Me

But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Bad Science

You will do it because you know that knowledge is beautiful, and because if only a hundred people share your passion, that is enough.

Bad Science

They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.

Brave New World