science

"I think that natural sciences and capitalism are different aspects of the same thing. Science is orientated against scientists, capitalism is oriented against businesses. These are processes that are …"

"We live during the hinge of history. Given the scientific and technological discoveries of the last two centuries, the world has never changed as fast. We shall soon have even greater powers to transf…"

"In the long run, the methods are the important part of the course. It is not enough to know the theory; you should be able to apply it."

"Man invented clothing to cover the superficial and to discover the inside."

"The fact is he made a prodigious blunder in commencing the attack, and now his only chance is to be silent and let people forget the exposure. I do not believe that in the whole history of science the…"

"I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized."

"In all my experiments I could, owing to lack of time, pay attention to only those matters which appeared to have a bearing upon practical optics. I could either not touch other questions, or at most n…"

"It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific."

"In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content."

"Ninety-nine out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scienti…"

"Simon Conway Morris's webpage at the Earth Sciences department"

"If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control"

"Whether computers are used for engineering design, medical data processing, composing music, or other purposes, the structure of computing is much the same. We are extremely short of talented people i…"

"Just because people doing science are embedded in a particular social and cultural milieu, it doesn’t follow that science is not universal."

"My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be ab…"

"A historian of science is not expected to be a scientist, but he is expected to have some basic knowledge of the scientific alphabet. Similarly, a historian of Orientalism—that is to say, the work of …"

"The Germans had thought they could replace light artillery with mortars, believing it unnecessary to furnish their troops with light guns and howitzers. The theory was wrong as they found out during t…"

"You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes."

"Philosophy... is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered. Philosophy elucidates propositions, science verifies them. In the later we are concerned with the trut…"

"For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly."