science

"The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."

"First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a pressure group."

"It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought."

"God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know witho…"

"Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off."

"The original cut of Ridley Scott's recent retelling of the Robin Hood legend contained a puzzling interlude during which Russell Crowe recited the URL for a pornographic website. The scene was dropped…"

"There is a need to make general systems theory more user friendly."

"Ought these good people be subjected to the immoral influence of money taken from the saloon tainted money? Out of respect for the tender consciences of these pious people, the Raines law ought to exe…"

"Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest;…"

"Whether one agrees or not with Mr. Taylor , this is an inappropriate politicalization of climate science to promote a particular view."

"At first glance they seemed to be little better than savages, as primitive as the Danakil, but I was soon disconcerted to discover that, while they were prepared to tolerate me as a source of very wel…"

"The second part of the book... contains an exposition of the first principles of the theory of complex quantities; hitherto, the very elements of this theory have not been easily accessible to the Eng…"

"The heretic may be very irritating, he may be decidedly wrong, but the attempt to choke heresy or dissent from the dominant opinion by coercing the conscience is an incalculable danger to society. If …"

"Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions."

"Science and exile: David Bohm, the hot times of the Cold War, and his struggle for a new interpretation of quantum mechanics."

"He was my favorite hitter. He could do almost anything he wanted to do at bat. He was a scientific hitter. I've seen him deliberately go for the home run late in a game and get it. Even if it meant pu…"

"Articles on Systems Theory by Brian R. Gaines"

"inquiry characteristically confines itself to the process of cumulative change. His results, as well as his specific determination of the factors at work in this process of cumulative change, have bee…"

"Those corporations that continue to invest in new fossil fuel exploration, new fossil fuel exploitation, are really in flagrant breach of their fiduciary duty because the science is abundantly clear t…"

"I had barely sat down when he began to tell me... that science writers were "ignoramuses" and a "terrible breed" who invariably got things wrong: only scientists were really qualified to present their…"