Quotes of: Scientifically Keyword

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Charles Francis Richter

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Serge Lang

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.

Amanda Seyfried

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

David Hilbert

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Thomas Huxley

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It w...

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

The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James Bible. Having done three raps on the Bible, his fist clenched around a vial containing a homeopathic remedy made from ameth...

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth. It is...

Advice for a Young Investigator

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have prov...

The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule - Volume 1

Scientific theories are tested every time someone makes an observation or conducts an experiment, so it is misleading to think of science as an edifice, built on foundations. Rather, scientific knowledge is more like a web. The difference couldn’t ...

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically excludes its existence will be susceptible to being trapped in an endless chase for materialistic ca...

Donald L. Ewert

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing. : You're n...

Bill Blass

In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassail...

Werner Heisenberg

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Eric Gill

Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus.

Marty Rubin

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

John Charles Polanyi

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

Erin Heatherton

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

Albert J. Nock