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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about grav...

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Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

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Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

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Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a se...

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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as...

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What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

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There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to ...

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One can not impede scientific progress.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in...

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New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head ...

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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

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Max PlanckThe Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very ...

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The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

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It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo wa...

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I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to su...

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Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman's Camden Conversations

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not...

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William Kingdon CliffordLectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrumen...

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William Kingdon CliffordLectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford

… scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no s...

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William Kingdon CliffordLectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happe...

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