#scientific

With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#coming #exciting #having #inventing #lifetimes

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#character #depends #development #elements #far

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#claim #could #did #empirical #empirical fact

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#day #different #different ways #even #large

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#been #best #go #good #hindsight

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. ↗

— Max Planck

#die #does #gradually #happen #important

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. ↗

— Max Planck

#any #been #discovery #gone #knowledge

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#claim #community #found #marked #monopoly

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#conceded #geneva #government #moral #pressure