#scientific

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

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The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form? ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#call #dragons #else #engineered #form

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#assessment #changes #doubled #latest #made

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#absolute truth #any #regard #scientific #scientific theory

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#degree #graduate #i #lawrence #received

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#experiment #field #first #psychology #scientific

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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