Quotes About Scientific

We want the Demon, you see, to extract from the dance of atoms only information that is genuine, like mathematical theorems, fashion magazines, blueprints, historical chronicles, or a recipe for ion crumpets, or how to clean and iron a suit of asbestos, and poetry too, and scientific advice, and almanacs, and calendars, and secret documents, and everything that ever appeared in any newspaper in the Universe, and telephone books of the future...

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves. And all myths however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

they were among the most enthusiastic supporters of the new "scientific" anti-Semitic theories that ascribed a host of loathsome traits to Jews' inherent racial characteristics.

black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the smaller they are, the more they glow.

Descartes, for instance, in order to preserve the idea of free will, asserted that the human mind was something different from the physical world and did not follow its laws. In his view a person consists of two ingredients, a body and a soul. Bodies are nothing but ordinary machines, but the soul is not subject to scientific law.

events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe.

People have searched for mini black holes of this mass, but have so far not found any. This is a pity because, if they had, I would have got a Nobel Prize.

No entanto, a da tartaruga não é uma boa teoria científica porque prevê que as pessoas devem ser capazes de cair pela beirada do mundo. A experiência mostra que as coisas não são assim, a menos que venhamos a descobrir que essa é a explicação para as pessoas que supostamente desapareceram no Triângulo das Bermudas!

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

Spaces are scientific, open, and detached; places are intimate, peopled, and emotive.

Certainly, one of the greatest achievements of the human intellectual spirit was the Arabic Translation Movement. Over the course of about 100 years, virtually the entire Greek Scientific and philosophical corpus was either translated or summarized into Arabic (McGinnis, 10).

analogies may be scientifically important; they may serve, psychologically, to illuminate a dry exposition or to dispel a puzzlement; and they may be useful, methodologically, in suggesting a synthesis or provoking a generalization. But they have no inferential status: argument 'from analogy' is one of the numerous species of bad argument. (pp 56)

Social Darwinism had continued to flourish in German. Together with Mendelian genetics, it was widely thought to provide a scientific basis for the eugenic 'Racial Hygiene' movement.

there's a deeper reason so many young psychologists began to study morality from a rationalist perspective, and this was Kohlberg's second great innovation: he used his research to build a scientific justification for a secular liberal moral order.

There is some pretty solid scientific evidence that babies in the womb can learn songs and sounds, one of the most important sounds being mommy's voice.

universities need to make defending pluralism a top institutional priority, not an afterthought. If they do not, politicians—the world's worst judges of scientific integrity—will try to do it for them.

The purpose of all knowledge, metaphysical as well as scientific, is to achieve what Epicurus called ataraxia, freedom from irrational fears and anxieties of all sorts—in brief, peace of mind.

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.

The God of the Bible was Lord over everything, over every scientific discovery. He was Lord over not just what we did not know, but over what we knew and were discovering through science

many atheistic scientists insist there is never any reason to speculate beyond the universe of matter and energy, because there is nothing beyond that. They insist that the universe is all that is. The problem is that they cannot by any means prove this scientifically, so for them to make this claim at all is itself "unscientific." Ironically, in doing so, such scientists are themselves reaching beyond the world of science.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Assumir a responsabilidade por esse fracasso é mais difícil no curto prazo, mas fracassar com honra é um dom,9 e permite aproveitar a lição mais importante do método científico: se você não pode fracassar, não pode aprender.

Just as scientific experimentation is informed by theory, startup experimentation is guided by the startup's vision. The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

Es una de las lecciones más importantes del método científico: si no puedes fracasar, no puedes aprender.