science

"I have a natural instinct for science"

"Then arose the sect of the Gnostics—men who know — who laid claim to the possession of a perfect science, and who, if they were to be believed, had discovered the true formula for what philosophers ca…"

"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter o…"

"Evolution is purely a religion. There is no scientific evidence at all to back up any form of macro-evolution."

"Multiple discoveries are in fact very common in science and for much the same reason. Developments in related fields with different motivation help one to understand a difficult problem better. Since …"

"he Revolution of 1688...is the greatest thing done by the English nation. It established the State upon a contract, and set up the doctrine that a breach of contract forfeited the crown. ... Parliamen…"

"When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing."

"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

"One can hardly engage in a serious study of medieval Christianity without discovering among its ‘values’ the belief in a rational science of human and social order and especially of natural law. Moreo…"

"The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations,…"

"Science is the future of mankind."

"The direction in which science will move is set by the philosophic world view of the scientists."

"All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing."

"The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it."

"We are not imitating Hitler and Mussolini. They are imitating us. They have just discovered what we knew for centuries: that a corporate, collectivist system pays."

"The laws of classical mechanics represent a mathematical idealization and should not be assumed to correspond to the real laws of nature. … We now have to realize that errors are inevitable a discover…"

"A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast."

"The noble Earl, Lord Curzon, stated that he could not understand how it is that we, the Party who have always taken the side of people rightly struggling to be free, do not sympathise with Ulster. In …"

"When asked his opinion of pragmatism, Morgenbesser replied "It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice."

"To succeed in science, you have to avoid dumb people . Now that might sound inexcusably flip, but the fact is that you must always turn to people who are brighter than yourself."