Quotes of: Scientific-fact Keyword

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know. There's not a mechanic or scientist or technician alive who hasn't suffered from that one so much that he's n...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Tidak ada kesalah-pahaman mengenai ilmuwan yang lebih besar daripada kepercayaan yang berkembang bahwa mereka adalah individu-individu yang dingin, keras, dan tak berjiwa.

The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.

Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

The Scientific Analysis of Personality

All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.

Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Calvin and Hobbes: Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is educatio...

Peter Agre

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over ti...

Lisa Randall

My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.

Geoffrey West

We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

John L. Phillips

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal ...

The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation

When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.

Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientifi...

Theodosius Dobzhansky

The Scientific Method is a wonderful tool as long as you don't care which way the outcome turns; however, this process fails the second one's perception interferes with the interpretation of data. This is why I don’t take anything in life as an abs...

Cristina Marrero

The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view...

Ben Goldacre