Quotes of: Scientific-knowledge Keyword

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advanci...

Kenneth R. Miller

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Bill Watterson

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

James Mark Baldwin

To say that the humanities can be a path to truth itself is to challenge one of our most closely held beliefs. We live not only in a scientific world, but also in a scientistic one: a world that thinks that science - empirical, objective, quantifiabl...

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in ...

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a cheerful person, a do-gooding scientific type with knowledge of English...

A Big Storm Knocked It Over

Radical space technologies never reach the public because unknown groups do not wish humanity to have access to the highest knowledge or the most advanced scientific inventions. Perhaps this suppression is out of fear that the masses may be able to e...

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man o...

That Hideous Strength

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Sri Ramakrishna

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories.

Silvia Hartmann

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

Serge Lang

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Michael Shermer

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Ernest Lawrence

Kris Kelvin: You mean more to me than any scientific truth.

Solaris

The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spen...

Ira Remsen

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowled...

Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.

VIRGIL PROFEANU

dismissed in his address religion as a 'myth'...

Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The Principles of Scientific Management

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

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