#scienc

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#discovery #ends #life-long #original #science

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ↗

— Harper Lee

#conscience #majority #one thing #person #rule

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#centuries #england #had #having #information

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#everybody #experiments #for the people #go #means

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#consists #duplicated #exactly #forms #knowledge

Science always uses metaphor. ↗

— James Lovelock

#metaphor #science #uses

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. ↗

— James Lovelock

#could #country #every #ii #just

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. ↗

— James Lovelock

#any #around #been #come #evolution

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#getting #got #i #jobs #just

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#methodology #must #revisit #science