We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.
I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.
For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.
Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the principles of integrity and objectivity, with a complete rejection of all authority except that of fact.
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth. . . At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.