Scientific Quotes
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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
Ivar Giaever -
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.
Andy Burnham
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My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.
John Astin -
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.
David Lilienthal -
You have to be born to this job. There’s no scientific learning method.
Ernst Happel -
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
Niels Bohr -
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.
Michael Rosbash
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow -
My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.
Heidi Hammel -
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.
Nevill Francis Mott -
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.
Austin Bradford Hill -
The likelihood of any success in court which is not a scientific body is very low.
Bob Walker -
Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
Ernst Mayr
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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.
George Bernard Shaw -
We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures.
David Rutley