science

"You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort."

"I do not ask them to assume the worth of my creed or any creed; and I could wish they did not so often ask me to assume the worth of their worthless, poisonous plutocratic modern society. But if it co…"

"This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well, but it is a goal that necessarily lies very far off because science, whenever possible, proceeds experimentally and in all cases sta…"

"As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo . The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years. World Scientific. p. 301."

"Continuous distributions are basic to the theory of probability and statistics, and the calculus is necessary to handle them with any ease."

"Don’t get testy with me, sir. I am Augustine of Hippo Regius, discoverer of concupiscence. Between my legs hangs the axis on which will turn the brave new world of Christian antieroticism."

"We will not turn from the old tactics, nor from the old program. Ever advancing with science and economic development, we are what we were and we will remain what we are. Or – the Social Democracy wil…"

"What they didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time."

"While economic theory in general may be defined as the theory of how an economic condition or an economic development is determined within an institutional framework, the deals with how to judge wheth…"

"Nothing carries so much authority today as science, but there is actually no such thing as ‘the scientific world-view’. Science is a method of inquiry, not a view of the world. Knowledge is growing at…"

"Colonial possessions added to the prestige, and to a much lesser degree to the wealth, of Europe. But the primary cause of Western affluence and power is internal – the institutions of science, democr…"

"Postmodernism theory is one of those attempts: the effort to take the temperature of the age without instruments and in a situation in which we are not even sure there is so coherent a thing as an "ag…"

"The concept of rotation led to geometrical exponential magnitudes, to the analysis of angles and of trigonometric functions, etc. I was delighted how thorough the analysis thus formed and extended, no…"

"Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction."

"Although previously the monoamine systems were considered to be responsible for the development of major depressive disorder , the available evidence to date does not support a direct causal relations…"

"They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscri…"

"Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks."

"What we know of physical and biological science makes existence of God less probable than the existence of Santa Claus. And the parts of physics that rule out God are not themselves open to much doubt…"

"There is, of course, the critical difference between the pressure of hands against each other, and that of the stone against the hand: that in the case of the pressure of the hands against each other …"

"Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories."