Quotes of: Scientific-theory Keyword

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Madame de Stael

The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat. 1. The energy of the universe is constant. 2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

The Mechanical Theory Of Heat

To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the first is the theory of descent with modification. Some call it the fact of evolution, and some call it the do...

Lee Spetner

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits o...

Judith Butler

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Men always want what they can’t have, or what other men want. It’s a scientific fact.

Seducing Cinderella

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Life Is Worth Living

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

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

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

The Will to Power

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

Temple Grandin

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

Jeff Merkley

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

John Astin

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

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Hugo Gernsback

Engywook: Get out of my sight, wench, you're disturbing my scientific work! Urgl: You and your scientific work!

The NeverEnding Story

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Friedrich August von Hayek

M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.

Stephen Hawking

The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists of the world are forming an invisible network with a very free flow of scienti...

Sune Bergström

Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and e...

Archibald E. Garrod

The clothes have no emperor.

Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

Sam Harris