science

"But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this — that men despair and think things impossible."

"The life space... includes both the person and his psychological environment. The task of explaining behavior then becomes identical with finding a scientific representation of the life space and dete…"

"Dark matter cannot be any sort of matter that is known to science."

"Animals can not disapprove, but they can complain and protest, at least until their vocal chords are cut to spare experimenters their protests."

"A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence."

"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wea…"

"This is a report of an actual industrial experiment designed to determine why workers resisted job changes and what could be done about the problem. The research arose out of the need to change indust…"

"Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory."

"a) The definition of history? Every historian would agree, I think, that history is a kind of research or inquiry. What kind of inquiry it is I do not yet ask. The point is that generically it belongs…"

"Here is a list of some of the questions and their short answers The interesting thing is to recognize how totally unavoidable they are, provided you place your confidence in science to provide the ans…"

"Burne was tough. Burne practiced archeology, the most inconvenient of the sciences."

"In the twenty-four years since its birth in 1921, the Communist Party of China has gone through three great struggles--the Northern Expedition, the Agrarian Revolutionary War and the War of Resistance…"

"We have discovered in this past decade that thinking, and decision, are not solely the province of the metaphysicist, but are appropriate subjects for scientific inquiry."

"Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world."

"Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity."

"Science may explain aspects of art but it will not replace the inspiration that art evokes..."

"Ptolemy left in his Optics, the earliest surviving table of angles of refraction from air to water. … This table, quoted and requoted until modern times, has been admired … A closer glance at it, howe…"

"The mystery is how a conception that is vulnerable to such obvious counterexamples survived for so long. I can explain it only by a weakness of the scholarly mind that I have often observed in myself.…"

"Lieber, Fritz" at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"

"The word "restraint" implies the asking of an essential question, one that is more important now than ever, and is antithetical both to capitalism and to science as we practice them: Because we can do…"