Scientific Quotes
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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.
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A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
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While learned ladies had always been present among the educated of nobility, and women had contributed to science and mathematics from earliest times, the "scientific lady" was a product of the Scientific Revolution.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.
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What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.
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Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.
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It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.
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I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.
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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.
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Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.
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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
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Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.
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The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
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The biggest ever scientific fraud.
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Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
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For the scientific impulse and the religious impulse — the search for fact and the search for value — are the two prime and vital movements of the human spirit. … Granted exactly equal validity, pursued with exactly equal sincerity, the search for fact and the search for value lead to the threshold of the world of meaning which is at once their origin and their goal.
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's.
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Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
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If a proposition cannot be falsified, it is not scientific.
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You have to be born to this job. There’s no scientific learning method.
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I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to take them apart. It was born in me. Not everybody is like that, but a scientific researchist should be. Any fool can show me an experiment is useless. I want a man who will try it and get something out of it.
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I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
