Quotes of: Scientific-theory Keyword

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Yogi Berra

Stephen Hawking: No... doctors. No doctors!

The Theory of Everything

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

Francis Parker Yockey

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Yogi Berra

Facts count. Conspiracy theories, usually the refuge of the bitter or disempowered, range from factually challenged to wildly hallucinogenic. Conspiracy theories are not harmless entertainment, or a laudable facet of the freedom of speech. Conspiracy...

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The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

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

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

The Unity of Science

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

The World As I See It

Raised in a completely nonreligious family, never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.

Richard Dawkins

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

Konrad Lorenz

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Richard Dawkins

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.

Jerrold Nadler

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

Nancy Pearcey

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

Donald Johanson

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

Roger Penrose

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

B. F. Skinner