Quotes about science
science discovery should
Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made. Claude Bernard
science men ideas
Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat
science firsts facts
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
science statistics succeed
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.
science causes doe
Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.
science self mind
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
science numbers progress
Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. ... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
science imagination overcoat
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
science pride proportion
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
science men discovery
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.
science doe knows
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
science views numbers
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and diversity of all the phenomena of modern life, the great possibilities and dangers linked with the scientific-technical revolution and with a number of social tendencies demand precisely such an approach, as has been acknowledged in a number of official statements. Andrei Sakharov
science atoms impossible
Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large. Anaxagoras
science stones littles
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
science magic looks
Science, you don't know, looks like magic. Christopher Moore
science keys psychology
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. Amos Bronson Alcott
science library tentacles
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. Daniel J. Boorstin
science mysticism
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism. D. H. Lawrence
science air roots
To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.
science space swans
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
science oneness space
One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.
science ties atoms
...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united...
science oxygen two
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
science sea earth-day
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. Daniel Webster
science may scientist
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
science logic assumption
SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. Ambrose Bierce
science substance culture
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
science medical-profession humour
HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
science blue two
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.
science animal path
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
science astronomers conjecture
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
science two shade
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
science giving fool
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.