Scientific Quotes

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

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

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.