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Quotes About Science

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.
~ Sigmund Freud
I am not really a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, and not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador...with the curiosity, the boldness, and the tenacity that belong to that type of person.
~ Sigmund Freud
It may be said that hysteria is as ignorant of the science of the structure of the nervous system as we ourselves before we have learnt it.
~ Sigmund Freud
Geometria este ?tiin?a care trage concluzii corecte din figuri incorecte
~ Sigmund Freud
Marea majoritate a ocultistilor nu sunt manati de setea de cunoastere, de senzatia de rusine ca stiinta a omis atata timp sa ia cunostinta de problemele de netagaduit si nici de necesitatea sa-i cucereasca noi domenii fenomenale. Ei sunt mai degraba persoane convinse care cauta confirmari, care vor sa aiba o justificare, pentru a-si marturisi credinta.
~ Sigmund Freud
La ciencia moderna aún no ha producido un medicamento tranquilizador tan eficaz como lo son unas pocas palabras bondadosas
~ Sigmund Freud
For Habermas, scientism means science's belief in itself: that is, 'the conviction that we can no longer understand science as one form of knowledge, but rather must identify knowledge with science'.
~ Simon Critchley
The Slavs aren't unintelligent of course, just emotionally unstable, liable to great heights and great depths. That is what science tells one. Look at Tchaikovsky. Look at Dostoyevsky.
~ Simon Mawer
Quantum cryptography would mark the end of the battle between codemakers and codebreakers, the codemakers emerging victorious, because quantum cryptography is a truly unbreakable system of encryption.
~ Simon Singh
Quantum cryptography is an unbreakable system of encryption.
~ Simon Singh
the First World War was the chemists' war, because mustard gas and chlorine were employed for the first time
~ Simon Singh
Because a quantum computer deals with 1's and 0's that are in a quantum superposition, they are called quantum bits, or qubits (pronounced "cubits"). The advantage of qubits becomes even clearer when we consider more particles.
~ Simon Singh
Každý, kdo pÃ…â"¢emýÅ¡lí o kvantové mechanice, aniž by se mu zato?ila hlava, jí nerozumí.
~ Simon Singh
250 qubits, it is possible to represent roughly 1075 combinations, which is greater than the number of atoms in the universe. If it were possible to achieve the appropriate superposition with 250 particles, then a quantum computer could perform 1075 simultaneous computations
~ Simon Singh
With geology—a knowledge-based account of the nature of planet Earth, which one might legitimately regard as the ur-science—now unleashed from churchly teaching, other kinds of rational thinking started to seep into and infect all the other realms of natural philosophy. Science in its most general sense took off as a legitimate field of study and challenge, and the free-thinking rationality and free will that is the
~ Simon Winchester
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
~ Simone Weil
Science is a monopoly, not because public education is badly organized, but by its very nature; non-scientists have access only to the results, not to the methods, that is to say they can only believe, not assimilate.
~ Simone Weil
L'esprit de verite peut resider dans la science a la condition que le mobile du savant soit l'amour de l'objet qui est la matiere de son etude... La vraie definition de la science, c'est qu'elle est l'etude de la beaute du monde
~ Simone Weil
Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.
~ Simone Weil
La science est aujourd'hui regardée par les uns comme un simple catalogue de recettes techniques, par les autres comme un ensemble de pures spéculations de l'esprit qui se suffisent à elles-mêmes ; les premiers font trop de peu de cas de l'esprit et les seconds du monde.
~ Simone Weil
Ceux qui ont dit jusqu'ici que les applications sont le but de la science voulaient dire que la vérité ne vaut pas la peine d'être cherchée et que le succès seul importe ;
~ Simone Weil
La science, aujourd'hui, cherchera une source d'inspiration au-dessus d'elle ou périra
~ Simone Weil
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
~ Sinclair Lewis