Scientific Quotes

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.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

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

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

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

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

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

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

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.

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

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

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

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

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical.

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists.

They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

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

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

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

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

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

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.