Scientific Quotes

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

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.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.