Scientific Quotes
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I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
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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 likelihood of any success in court which is not a scientific body is very low.
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It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.
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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
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We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures.
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Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.
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All scientific work is incomplete – whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.
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Animal research has lead to advances in the treatment of many conditions... Where there is no alternative available, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained.
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It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
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Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
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In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.
