Scientific Quotes

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Christopher Dawson

Spiritual, Political, Moral

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
Allan Sherman

Winning, She, Luck

Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.
Jim Ramstad

Great, Hope, Human

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

Made, Almost, Changes

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
Duane G. Carey

Knowledge, Children, After

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Mind, Ask, Questions

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.
Joseph Rotblat

Life, Time, Society

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
Herman Kahn

Age, War, Earth

There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
Walter Lang

Time, Long, Problems

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.
Rem Koolhaas

Once, Almost, Shopping

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
Mike Johanns

Decisions, Again, Thoughtful

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

Serious, Matter, Analysis

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
Ken Thompson

Work, Gardening, Job

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
Simon Newcomb

School, Degree, University

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
Simon Newcomb

Economics, Psychology, Experiment

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
Simon Newcomb

Great, Sometimes, Common

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
Timothy Radcliffe

Power, Society, Confidence

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Adam Osborne

Work, Time, Best

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
Susie Bright

Human, Point, Values

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Louis Agassiz

Truth, Through, Before

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.
Michael Behe

Age, History, Beyond

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
Dean Inge

Men, Science, Philosophy

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
David Brin

Best, Science, Doubt

The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.
Jon Porter

Life, Society, Political

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
Peter Garrett

Change, Matter, Community

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
Peter Garrett

Change, Find, Start

Dreams are a scientific fact.
Robyn Hitchcock

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.
Todd Akin

Person, May, Fact

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.
Todd Akin

Time, Food, Person

I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
James W. Black

Between, Personal, Once

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