#science

Science always uses metaphor. ↗

— James Lovelock

#metaphor #science #uses

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#civic #decline #drifting #effectiveness #fall

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#better #defined #hypothesis #next #open

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

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#classics #literature #modern #newest #oldest

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. ↗

— Percival Lowell

#any #essential #imagination #learning #points

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

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#choosing #guide #how #must #our

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biology #bodies #development #effective #laws