#scientific knowledge

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#expenditure #increase #knowledge #lead #progress

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people. ↗

— William John Wills

#arts #confined #deep #differently #dispositions

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#einstein #few #knowledge #now #philosophers

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#always #another #been #being #books

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#composition #enormous #fantasy #good #good taste

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#after #believe #better #children #doing

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. ↗

— Aime Cesaire

#great #great silence #knowledge #poetic #scientific

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

— Nate Silver

#distinguishing #knowledge #noise #requires #scientific

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#kind #knowledge #scientific #scientific knowledge