In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Unknown The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: reputation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Humankind cannot stand very much reality. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: reality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: questioning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: reputation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humankind cannot stand very much reality. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: reality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: questioning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “science” The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. —Stephen Jay Gould More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. —Sir William Bragg More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. —Sir Francis Darwin More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. —Paul Dirac More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. —Stephen Jay Gould More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. —Sir William Bragg More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. —Sir Francis Darwin More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. —Paul Dirac More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email