Scientific Quotes

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.
Asa Gray

Facts, Class, Beliefs

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

Ignorance, Crime, Sin

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
Frederick Soddy

Men, Science, Ignorance

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.
Roman Jakobson

Made, Study, Place

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.
John L. Phillips

Time, Different, Two

We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
John L. Phillips

Work, Time, Maybe

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.
James Rollins

American, Often, While

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.
James Rollins

American, While, Reading

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
Ann Veneman

Health, Human, Matter

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.
Elisha Gray

Talking, Values, Interest

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.
Richard Wall

Society, Study, Sister

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.
Tim Ferriss

Government, Science, Support

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Alfred L. Kroeber

Humanities, Sciences, Humanistic

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.
Sydney Brenner

Work, Science, Important

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

Rock, Highest, Modesty

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.
Jane Mayer

Whether, Questions, Seem

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

American, Read, Month

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Robert Barany

Made, Problems, Minds

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
Joseph Murray

Control, Effort, Fail

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.
Stanley Schmidt

Writing, Sometimes, Means

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.
Vannevar Bush

Game, Far, Might

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.
Frederick Reines

Greatest, Talent, Research

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
Frederick Sanger

Respect, Science, Him

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

Research, Exciting, Rewarding

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
Gregory Corso

Society, Judge, Put

There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth.
Paul Broun

Young, Show, Earth

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
Lion Feuchtwanger

History, Writing, Days

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
Serge Lang

Opinion, Between, Here

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
Serge Lang

Society, Congress, Community

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
Serge Lang

Questions, Needs, Matters

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