Scientific Quotes

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

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

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

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.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.