#scientific

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. ↗

— David Douglass

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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

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At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. ↗

— Abdus Salam

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This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. ↗

— Eben Alexander

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Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. ↗

— Karl Popper

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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

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