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“Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.”
“Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.”
“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.”
Source: Where is science going?
“Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.”
“Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another's work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt.”
Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
“Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.”
“Scientific discovery is the most potent weapon of mass destruction (WMD).”
“Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.”
“Scientific discovery prevents the biologically toxic 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea from being built.”
“Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.”
Source: Church Dogmatics: pt. 1. The doctrine of the word of God
“Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.”
“Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.”
Source: Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe
“Scientific facts alone are futile without a conscientious soul to work on them.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's”
Source: Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science
“Scientific fraud is a normal aspect of government.”
“Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.”
“Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.”
Source: Small Wonder
“Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.”
“Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.”
“Scientific knowledge about the 'Self' and learning about its relation with the universal power, practicing the skills to strengthen the 'Self' and life-centric education can bring the consciousness of 'Self.”
“Scientific knowledge about the Universe could never be more than a tiny island in a vast sea of invincible ignorance.”
Source: Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe
“Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.”
“Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.”
Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.”
“Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”
“Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.”
Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage
“Scientific knowledge without solid theory is like a tree with shallow roots that succumbs to the storms it faces. Without practical application, however, it is like a dry tree that denies its shade on days of scorching sun.”
“Scientific literacy is a rather noble ideal. Achieving it, however, is problematic thanks to our tribal brains. If science is equated with knowledge, then communicating facts, figures, and theories should be a way to increase the public’s level of engagement with it. However, this boils down to the authority distributing the information. Who do you listen to when there are conflicting sources? Our brain’s desire for certainty and its tendency to evaluate new information based on social clues means anybody painted as an expert, who sounds confident, shares our values and flatters our expectations, is more likely to win over our opinion...regardless of the scientific merits of their argument.”
Source: Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs, and Bad Ideas
“Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.”
“Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.”
“Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.”
“Scientific management, so-called, is an attempt to apply the methods of science to the increasingly complex problems of the control of labor in rapidly growing capitalist enterprises. It lacks the characteristics of a true science because its assumptions reflect nothing more than the outlook of the capitalist with regard to the conditions of production. It starts, despite occasional protestations to the contrary, not from the human point of view but from the capitalist point of view, from the point of view of the management of a refractory work force in a setting of antagonistic social relations. It does not attempt to discover and confront the cause of this condition, but accepts it as an inexorable given, a “natural” condition. It investigates not labor in general, but the adaptation of labor to the needs of capital.”
Source: Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
“Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.”
Source: Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents
“Scientific men are too much given to explaining an unknown thing by another thing as little known, leaving the problems they deal with very much as they were.”
Source: The Book on Mediums: Guide for Mediums and Invocators
“Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.”
“Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in
principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic
definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.”
Source: Word and Object
“Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will enable the observer to discover general laws governing facts of the kind in question. The two stages, first of observation, and second of inference to a law, are both essential, and each is susceptible of almost indefinite refinement. (1931)”
Source: The Scientific Outlook
“Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.”
Source: The history of manners
“Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know if they're actually working.”
“Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.”
“Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.”
“Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.”
Source: A Very First Book Of Poems: Heartbreak
“Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”
Source: Georges Braque
“Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.”
“Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.”
“Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.”
“Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.”
Source: Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors