Quotes of: Scientific-knowledge Keyword

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Aime Cesaire

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Richard Cobden

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

The Raw and the Cooked

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Henry Petroski

The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is needed to explain s...

Philosophy of Science

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Luther Burbank

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Harriet Martineau

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

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

Imre Lakatos

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

Karl Jaspers

Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea...

David Weinberger

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

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

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations ...

Asa Gray

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Konrad Lorenz

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Max Planck

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Maria Mitchell

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

Tawhid and Science

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific kn...

The Curse of Chalion