Scientific Quotes

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

One can not impede scientific progress.

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.