science

"Symmetry is not enough by itself. In electromagnetism, for example, if you write down all the symmetries we know, such as Lorentz invariance and gauge invariance, you don’t get a unique theory that pr…"

"What I see is European construction drifting towards a free-trade zone, that is to say an English-style Europe, which I reject. If we do nothing, this will lead in 15 years to a break-up. I reject a E…"

"When Keynes’s General Theory was published in February 1936, it obliterated all else on the scene in academic economics. Hayek was known to be working on a treatise on capital as Keynes’s work was pub…"

"Dalton, the mathematical tutor, following up the lead of Newton, combined the whole of the results of quantitative measurement which had accumulated up to his time, in a comprehensive theory, based on…"

"The science of neuroendocrinology—the brain-to-pituitary link that was discerned by Hinsey, Wislocki, du Vigneaud, and Harris—is dependent upon hormones flowing within nerve axons. This phenomenon, ax…"

"I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist un…"

"Unmasking the False Prophet of Creationism Barbara Forrest. September 1999. from National Center for Science Education"

"Good theory. But guess what, if I don't smoke there's going to be secondary bullets coming your way, 'cause I'm that tense."

"The most important component of the incompatibility between science and religion is religion’s dependence on faith."

"Albert Abraham Michelson National Academy of Science"

"One of the fruitful sources, as I hold it, of the errors which prevail in our country, is the theory that this is a government of one people; that the government of the United States was formed by a m…"

"I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and dis…"

"The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones."

"But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precessi…"

"Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena."

"The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter."

"A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences"

"He had discovered that the notion of a host-parasite arms race is one of the most basic and unavoidable consequences of evolution."

"Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such “transcending” analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibiliti…"

"The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1997"