Quotes about science
science unique clouds
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population. E. O. Wilson
science religion tests
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
science wish looks
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
science years environmental
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
science feet survival
The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. Colin Wilson
science men significant
A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science. Claude Bernard
science climbing facts
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
science light house
Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.
science acceptance names
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
science discovery theory
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
science ideas entering
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
science observation experiments
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
science discovery mind
The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
science causes firsts
First causes are outside the realm of science.
science ideas discovery
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.
science men discovery
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
science discovery should
Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
science men ideas
Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat
science firsts facts
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
science statistics succeed
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.
science causes doe
Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.
science self mind
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
science numbers progress
Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. ... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
science imagination overcoat
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
science pride proportion
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
science men discovery
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.
science doe knows
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
science thinking fiction
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. Dan Simmons
science sea earth-day
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. Daniel Webster
science thinking skulls
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it. ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull. David Leavitt
science doe finals
The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof. David Bohm
science technology mind
Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.
science men clue
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.