science

"...One of the things I have discovered is, in Washington, D.C. most people understand the consequences of failure. And if failure is not an option, then it's up to the president to come up with a plan…"

"In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science th…"

"There is no doubt that this is probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world, and it has been done by scientific machinery by nominally civilised men i…"

"It may hereafter be considered how far the excellent experiments of Count Rumford, which tend very greatly to weaken the evidence of the modern doctrine of heat, may be more or less favourable to one …"

"Robert became much interested in science and scientific method … He was conscious of the dual approach by means of induction and deduction ; i.e., from the empirical knowledge one proceeds to probable…"

"Part of the downfall came early and on theoretical grounds, with the realization that real-world information lags for aggregate variables like the price level and money supply were much too short to r…"

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approa…"

"The technical apparatus of modem organization is far more complicated, elaborate, and scientific than that of preceding generations."

"Knowing how things work is important, but I think that's an incomplete view of what science literacy is or, at least, should be. Science literacy is an outlook. It's more of a lens through which you o…"

"If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator."

"Mechanical drawings and blueprints are not mere pictures, but a complete and rich language. In blueprint language, scientific, mathematical, and geometric formulations, notations, mensurations, and na…"

"Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering."

"You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until yo…"

"we never experiment with just one electron or atom or molecule. In thought-experiments we sometimes assume that we do."

"The next revolution in scientific discovery will depend on scientific interdependence."

"To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."

"Common sense is the very antipodes of science."

"Genuine poetry reminds us how little we truly know, it is a vehicle for discovery, not a conduit for omniscience."

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"Where slavery exists, the republican theory becomes still more fallacious."