#science

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#had #hard #i #kind #made

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#mathematics #problems #science #simple #solutions

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#attempt #behind #directing #epistemological #eye

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

#birds #could #eat #except #half

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#20th-century #polygraph #tests #witchcraft

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of "inspiration." It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#knowledge #religion #rights #science #society

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#consider #felt #form #game #i

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructive #endure #foundation #god #harmonize

Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know that some of their atoms cycled through this woman? [...] Will they feel what she felt in her life, will their memories have flickering strokes of her memories, will they recall that moment long ago when she stood by the window, guilt ridden and confused, and watched as the tadr bird circled the cistern? No, it is not possible. [...] But I will let them have their own brief glimpse of the Void, just at that moment they pass from living to dead, from animate to inanimate, from consciousness to that which has no consciousness. For a moment, they will understand infinity. ↗

— Alan Lightman

#death #religion #science-fiction #death

Science is what scientists do. ↗

— Dennis Flanagan

#scientists