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• Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science And Scientists, Scientific

• The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Feelings

• Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

  Nate Silver

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Scientific, Both

• The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Standard, Simple

• This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Principle, Scientific, Effects

• But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

  Frederick Soddy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Scientific

• I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, American, Science, Scientific, Experiment

• Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Scientific

• Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

  Frank Luntz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Traditional, Scientific

• Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It’s been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I’m talking about. But I’m still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Work

  Tags in People, Scientific

• It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Scientific, Men

• Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Progressive, Further, Scientific

• Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

  George Edward Brown Jr.

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Industrial, Scientific

• It makes sense to invest in new work. It’s almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You’ll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you’ll energise the organisation.

  Gavin Bryars

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Research, Department, Scientific, Laboratory

• Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

  Garrett Fort

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Fact, Superstition

• Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students’ math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

  Thad Cochran

  Topics in Education, Future

  Tags in Scientific

• I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

  Eben Alexander

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Explanations, Body

• I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

  Eben Alexander

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, World

• There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind – my conscious, inner self – was alive and well.

  Eben Alexander

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Explanation

• Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

  Christopher Bond

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Industry, Directly, Scientific