#scientific

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#scientific-method #style

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#cannot #decisions #documentation #doe #fact

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#affairs #analyzing #development #economic #economic development

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#bad #department #fail #having #invest

The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country. ↗

— Jon Porter

#contributions #country #cultural #develop #economic

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

— Wilhelm Reich

#chaos #contrived #foothold #living #phenomena

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

#conduct #conscious #destiny #fully #hinge

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

— Abdus Salam

#creation #heritage #mankind #scientific #shared

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better

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

#assigned #being #faiths #follows #mythology