#scientific

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. ↗

— Patrick White

#breathed #cannot #component #dividing #explain

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

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ask #been #capable #computations #digital

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#cold #market #researchers #scientific #traditional

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#define #got #live #scientific #simply

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method. ↗

— Henry M. Morris

#creation #far #in the past #inaccessible #method

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator. ↗

— Henry M. Morris

#basis #creator #defended #divine #either

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#benchmark #common #discussion #evolution #fossils

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#common #described #detail #documents #eclipse

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. ↗

— Edward Norton

#convey #field #help #need #people