I Quotes
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“In science we may start with experimental results, data, observations, measurements, ‘facts’. We invent, if we can, a rich array of possible explanations and systematically confront each explanation with the facts.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.”
“In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.”
“In science, work (W) is done when force (F) move a body through a distance (D). It is the same with our every day affairs. When you don't progress, no work is done irrespective of the force (power) you have”
“In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”
“In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.”
“In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.”
“In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.”
“In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.”
Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
Source: Collected essays
“In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.”
Source: Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective
“In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.”
“In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.”
“In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.”
Source: Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
“In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997
“In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.”
“In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.”
“In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.”
“In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.”
“In science, mistakes always precede the truth”
“In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.”
“In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.”
“In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected,
later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.”
“In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.”
“In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.”
“In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.”
“In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.”
Source: Lincoln Steffens speaking
“In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.”
“In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.”
“In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.”
“In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.”
“In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.”
“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
“In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’”
“In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.”
“In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.”
“In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.”
Source: Why Does E: (and why Should We Care?)
“In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.”
“In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.”
“In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.”
Source: The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget
“In sciences white people are not the pioneers, in philosophy white people are not the pioneers, in art and astrophysics whiteys are not the pioneers, in medicine and mathematics whiteys are not the pioneers, then how on earth did you come by this insane inkling that white people are the super race, how many bottles did you have, or did you bang your head against the rocks while making fire!”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.”
“In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.”
“In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.”
“In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.”
“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
“In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.”
Source: Poems: Third Series
“In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated”
“In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.”