(216 quotes found)
“A philosopher who adopts scientific notions predetermines his conclusions.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
“The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.”
Daniel S. Greenberg
“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
“Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.”
Wilhelm Reich
“A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps”
Alexander Fleming
“The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more”
Carl Becker
“We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.”
Christopher Reeve
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”
“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.”
David Hilbert
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
