#scientific

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#cause #id #intelligent-design #kepler #naturalism

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#being #challenging #citizens #critical #critical role

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically. ↗

— Leo Bogart

#created #evaluated #may #scientifically

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#attempt #entirely #far #game #get

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

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#call #days #debate #history #i

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#going #gravity #lot #minimize #other

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. ↗

— John Clayton

#god #logical #offer #perspective #practical

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#better #cultural #evidence #fact #historical

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. ↗

— Bill Condon

#get #kinsey #religion #rid #scientifically