science

"The hypostasis of the particular methods of procedure employed by natural science … results in the view that all theoretical differences which rest on historically conditioned antagonisms of interest …"

"An essential distinction exists between two stages in the process of advancing our knowledge of the laws of physical phenomena; the first stage consists in observing the relations of phenomena, whethe…"

"One is forced to the view, for which there is so much evidence even though without rigorous scientific basis, that besides this material world another, second, purely spiritual world order exists, wit…"

"To make a harsh but not entirely unjustified analogy, a government wedded to the ideology of competitiveness is as unlikely to make good economic policy as a government committed to creationism is to …"

"Science’s results alone justify its usefulness, for it is, hands down, the single best way we’ve devised to understand the universe."

"I trust the clergy are not involved in this problem. They‘re notoriously unscientific. One can‘t attack them with mathematics."

"When the theory performs well you also think, “Are there parallel results in naturally occurring field data?” You look for coherence across different data sets because theories are not specific to par…"

"It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or of remedying it."

"Personally, I find the concept of a "final theory," or a "theory of everything," rather limiting. The fun of discovery will most likely last as long as the human race continues."

"Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of t…"

"The systematic principle is based upon the hypothesis that there is a structure in the real world that transcends the distinctions of subjective and objective experience."

"The intensity of your feelings isn’t evidence."

"The fundamental thesis of ordinary, represented for instance by Poincare, states that there are problems which cannot be solved by appeal to experience unless one introduces a certain convention, sinc…"

"Who is this Pope that I hear so much about? I cannot discover what is his merit. Why will not my subjects write in prose?"

"Kepler's Somnium: Science Fiction and the Renaissance Scientist" by Gale E. Christianson"

"Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the…"

"I've been asked from time to time, "How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists?" And my answer has been that I am sure that I am not smarter than …"

"I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. When two expeditions of scientists, financed by the Royal Academy, went forth to test my theory of …"

"Mooney's unpublished paper “The Science of Industrial Organization” portrays GM's multidivisional organization's use of the line-staff concept in organizing overseas assembly plants. Here I compare Ge…"

"The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."