science

"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be…"

"The abolition of the evil is not impossible; it ought never therefore to be despaired of. Every plan should be adopted, every experiment tried, which may do something towards the ultimate object."

"The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry."

"Experimenters are the shocktroops of science… An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer. But before an experiment can be performe…"

"A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries."

"Bioluminescent Waves on California Coast have Turned into Red Tide that Smells Like Sulfur: Why is That? , Science Times"

"Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments."

"A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues , we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from auth…"

"Science is not a subject, it's a method. And the method can be applied to anything. Anybody can be a scientist."

"Scientists are typically good at making scientific progress, but not particularly good at articulating what the progress consists of."

"There are too many cogitations on Theory.. ..it is the malady of the epoch.. .Into the fire with Levi-Strauss and Michel Foucault!"

"Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, edited by: J. McKeen Cattell, The Science Press, New York, 1909"

"I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."

"Have the climate models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in …"

"These three classes of problems—determination of significant fact, matching of facts with theory, and articulation of theory—exhaust, I think, the literature of normal science, both empirical and theo…"

"We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory."

"One can show the following: given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite…"

"I switched on the high speed recorder and it came blip.... blip.... blip.... blip.... blip.... Clearly the same family, the same sort of stuff and that was great, that was really sweet. It finally sco…"

"If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance."

"In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions."