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Quotes About Scientific

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
~ Bill Gates
I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
~ Jodie Foster
I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.
~ Francis Collins
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.
~ Johnny Hart
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.
~ Jane Goodall
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.
~ Susan Sontag
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
~ Carl L. Becker
To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.
~ Hershel Shanks
Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.
~ J. Vernon McGee
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
~ Joshua Slocum
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
~ Alfred L. Kroeber
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
~ E. B. White
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
~ Bill Watterson
Another pioneer of the scientific revolution, Johannes Kepler, was the first to couch an earnest scientific argument – a representation of the Copernican theory of the solar system – as a visionary fantasy. His Somnium (A Dream, 1634) also includes an ingenious attempt to imagine how life on the moon might have adapted to the long cycle of day and night.
~ Edward James
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....
~ Albert Einstein
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
~ Albert Einstein
Objective reality, the world view produced by the spirit of scientific inquiry, is the myth of our time.
~ Albert Hofmann
All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it: everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the illuminati, Jacob Boehme, Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe it their Secrets and Symbols.
~ Albert Pike
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.
~ Alberto Caeiro
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
~ Aldous Huxley