science

"Without these experimental tests, very few physicists would have accepted general relativity. There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brilliance and elegance that have been rejected …"

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"Regulation may be actively sought by an industry, or it may be thrust upon it. A central thesis of this paper is that, as a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated pr…"

"One of the most fundamental principles of Lavoisier's chemistry was the use of numbers, notably in relation to what we often call today the principle of conservation of mass... The principle implies t…"

"Atrocity, which re-enacts the Milgram Experiment"

"The theory of population genetics and experiments on other organisms show that substantial changes can occur in the span of less than 100 generations, which for man reaches back to the time of the Rom…"

"rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."

": Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first."

"Notwithstanding the predominant role in academic economic theory that Keynes and Keynesian economics achieved during the twentieth century, his basic outlook and policy recommendations were shaped by …"

"Science... the ways it does its calculating that approximately nobody going in at a basic level can gain any sense of the whole."

"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."

"Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science."

"Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory…"

"Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason…"

"Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come."

"Systems theory, in its concern for the whole and its emergent properties, ignores the components."

"The study he conducted with Dabholkar goes to explain why astrology is not a science through a simple experiment. They adopted an experiment conducted by Bernie Silverman, a graduate student of Michig…"

"Throughout the nineteenth century, apart from the division in theoretical sciences and arts, classifiers attempted to divide the sciences into two groups. Already they had before them the examples of …"

"Art is nothing but humanized science."

"Every historic period has had its Cassandras. Our era is the first in which prophecies of doom stem from objective scientific analyses."