Quotes About Scientific

She deemed Fermi's work inconclusive, and in late 1934, she published her views on Fermi's findings in an article titled "Über Das Element 93" (On Element 93), in which she proposed an idea that seemed unrealistic

George had a growing notion to create a working farm, with a village to support the estate where workers, employees, and others might live. He was also coming around to the idea, planted by Olmsted, of making a commitment to scientific and sustainable forestry, a concept foreign to Americans at the time.

Network analysis is a relatively recent scientific method for describing and analyzing a web of links among entities, including people.

Social network analysis offers a systematic method to evaluate social media efforts, replacing anecdotes with scientifically based evidence.

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Because Control knew that belief in a scientific process only took you so far. The ziggurats of illogic erected by your average domestic terrorist as he or she bought the fertiliser or made a detonator took on their own teetering momentum and power. When those towers crashed to the earth, they still existed whole in the perpetrator's mind, and everyone else's too – just for different reasons.

By calling BS on so much of what goes on, this book gives people a closer, more scientific look at many dimensions of leadership behavior. Most important, it encourages everyone to finally stop accepting sugar-laced but toxic potions as cures.

Who or what inspires you? I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.

the Sources of Innovation: The Case of Scientific Instruments. Research Policy 23, no. 4: 459-469.

This almost never happens, outside of the realm of scientific terminology (which is obviously a domain populated by sadists with no regard for language).

I share the feeling with many that the appeal of scientific research is to open our minds to the amazement generated by progressive knowledge rather than to close our minds with an ephemeral sense of certainty.

The art world is an unregulated economy that borrows from other economies—theory, poetry, and scientific research, in this case—to continually update its relationship to the world and, in acting as a conduit for other (and all) disciplines, strives to become the clearest image of the world in which we may better see ourselves.

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.