![Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.](/assets/img/quote-photos/philosophers-of-science-constantly-discuss-theories-and-representation-of-reality.jpg)
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory. Ivar Giaever
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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
science tinkering
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things. David Hanson
science writers
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. William Gibson
science thinking goal
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole. Carl Sagan
science fiction advantage
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
science survivor kicking
When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.
science columbus usual
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.
science thinking people
I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.
technology use facts
It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
technology tools use
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change. Beth Simone Noveck
technology democracy election
Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.
technology bitcoin doe
The bigger thing with bitcoin is not bitcoin itself, but what does that decentralized technology really do? Ashton Kutcher
technology people together
The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.
technology thinking people
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.
technology
We just didn't have the technology. It's a very unfortunate situation.
technology
YouTube is akin to having my own network. Marlee Matlin
technology
We have to make better use of technology.
reality anecdotes
Good anecdote--bad reality. Carrie Fisher
reality watches happenings
Everybody knows what's going on. Even if they don't watch it they know what's happening. Carrie Underwood
reality order going-out
Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time. Arsene Wenger
reality achieve thorough
To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once. Antoni Tapies
reality thinking everyday
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.
reality differences important
The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important. Bertrand Russell
reality keys accepting
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
reality names foe
Reality is always the foe of famous names. Petrarch
reality
You can get a reality show about anything,