“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.” ActionScienceForceUnderstandingNaturalPerfectMoralTechnologyAchieveScience And Technology Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
“To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.” HomeScienceStarsMillionsAchieveVolumeElephantsHerdsDensityNeutrons Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such challenges. And anyway, they are not competent. After all, they are just mathematicians-what we need is paramathematicians, like you... It is you who can be the welding force, between mathematicians and stories, in order to achieve the synthesis.” NeedsHelpingStoriesScienceOrderForceChallengesToo MuchAchieveLike YouMathematicsTowersMathematicianCompetentIvorySynthesisIvory TowerWelding Author:Apostolos Doxiadis
“His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.” LongSelfScienceMotherAchieveAmbitionSelf ConfidencePossessedUncertainBiographies Book:The life and work of Sigmund Freud Source: The life and work of Sigmund Freud
“If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."” IfsWayShouldWellsFactsStoriesWantedLawScienceLyingOrderCoursesAttitudeCasesStudyAchieveJudgingJudgmentScientistPrejudiceCriticalAriseDataMeritReasoningWhy NotDetectivesHolmesDogmaticWithholdingDetective StoriesStory WritersFalsification Author:Anthony Standen