One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim that scientific claims can be shown to be probably true in the light of the evidence. So the vast...
So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it im...
It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that man has no soul; he has only ‘body’ and ‘mind’. Man’s unshakable belief on the soul will not change this scientific truth! No be...
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that ...
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.
Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
Fact and fiction are different truths.
The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of facts is wisdom; the creation of facts is covert action.
Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relationships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike. In fact, there is some scientific evidence to suggest that on a genetic level, the people who are the most opp...
The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one da...
If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.
I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.
