S Quotes
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“Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.”
Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
“Scientific Progress goes boink?”
Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.”
“Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we become more and more conscious of the fact that the universe is cognizable.”
“Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.”
“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.”
Source: Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President
“Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it has proven impossible to find any consistent way to visualize the world underlying quantum theory in terms of our pictures in the everyday world. The general conclusion is that in quantum theory naive realism, although necessary at the level of observations, fails at the microscopic level.”
“Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.”
“Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.”
Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.”
“Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.”
“Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.”
“Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
- Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray; quoted in: Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffmann”
“Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.”
“Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.”
Source: The Andromeda Strain
“Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.”
“Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.”
Source: The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
“Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.”
Source: Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
“Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.”
“Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.”
“Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator of fecal contamination) and between 39 and 75 percent of chickens in retail stores are still infected. Around 8 percent of birds become infected with salmonella (down from several years ago, when at least one in four birds was infected, which still occurs on some farms). Seventy to 90 percent are infected with another potentially deadly pathogen, campylobacter. Chlorine baths are commonly used to remove slime, odor, and bacteria.
Of course, consumers might notice that their chickens don't taste quite right - how good could a drug-stuffed, disease-ridden, shit-contaminated animal possibly taste? - but the birds will be injected (or otherwise pumped up) with "broths" and salty solutions to give them what we have come to think of as the chicken look, smell, and taste. (A recent study by Consumer Reports found that chicken and turkey products, many labeled as natural, "ballooned with 10 to 30 percent of their weight as broth, flavoring, or water.”
Source: Eating Animals
“Scientific studies have shown that beta-male birds are more dependable and attentive to their mates...Perhaps there are lessons for us humans there as well.”
“Scientific studies have shown that during sleep, the mind does not become dormant and inactive, but rather, it becomes busy and more productive than ever. The fascinating and mysterious event is then activated-the dreaming mind." The Giant Compass: Navigating the Life of Your Dreams".”
“Scientific studies have shown that there is a measurement, called Error Positivity (EP), that shows how well people learn from mistakes. Those that have a higher EP tend to learn more and better than those that do not. Since high EP correlates to positive attitude and a willingness to work but does not correlate to intelligence, there is a theory that this is why, over time, competent hard workers outperform their more intelligent but less hard-working competition.”
Source: Breaking into Information Security: Crafting a Custom Career Path to Get the Job You Really Want
“Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.”
“Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.”
“Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.”
“Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.”
Source: Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait
“Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.”
Source: The Discovery of the Orgone
“Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.”
Source: Lost in a Good Book
“Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.”
Source: Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam
“scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.”
Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
“Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.”
“Scientific truth changes with data, spiritual truth changes with era, cultural truth changes with civilization.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.”
Source: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
“Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.”
Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction
“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”
Source: A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary
“Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the sum of multiple studies that all lean in the same direction in their results conducted by different people at different times of different nationalities with different competitive urges who all end up getting the same result. Then you have an emerging scientific truth, and then you put that in the textbooks, and that will never be shown to be wrong later on.”
“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.”
“Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.”
Source: On aggression
“Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”
“Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.”
“Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.”
“Scientific understanding of nature, doesn't make a person religious or atheist. It makes a person liberated of all labels. Moreover it makes a person kind and understanding.”
“Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called the anti-beauty quark. Could it be that ugly people now have something tangible to blame?”
“Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies the physical scientist with new instrumental means for discovering and interpreting phenomena of nature, which in their turn afford foundations of fresh generalisations, bringing gains of permanent value into the great storehouse of natural philosophy.”