Nonscientific Quotes

#1. A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

Karl Popper

#2. To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

J. Philippe Rushton

#3. I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard P. Feynman

#4. Many anthropologists work with a concept called embodied knowledge - tacit, nonscientific knowledge - and look for ways to incorporate such information into product design.

Katie Hafner

#5. The last person who wrote about me for the Wall Street Journal didn't even know the difference between machine memory and a floppy!

Brent Schlender

#6. Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

George Eliot

#7. One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

Samuel Adams

#8. The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

James Baldwin

#9. Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

Red Barber

#10. My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

James Meade

#11. There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

Jerry Seinfeld

#12. The average size of a woman is 14.

Melissa McCarthy

#13. Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN.

Sana Rose

#14. Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.

Haruki Murakami

#15. ...she was herself entire, and knew she could not be consumed.

Helen Oyeyemi

#16. You know, one time I saw Tiger down at the waterhole: he had the biggest testicles of any animal, and the sharpest claws, and two front teeth as long as knives and as sharp as blades. And I said to him, 'Brother Tiger, you go for a swim, I'll look after your balls for you.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

#18. It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

Woody Allen

#19. The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.

C. JoyBell C.