Quotes About Scientific Investigation

#1. Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around.

Abhijit Naskar

#2. All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Max Weber

#3. The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.

Thomas Huxley

#4. We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

Tim O'Brien

#5. I don't deny that scientific investigation is capable of delivering important truths about nature, but that doesn't stop questions about whether, as it is practiced, science today lives up to its potential for benefiting humanity.

Philip Kitcher

#6. Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#7. The dualistic mind tends to think of mu occurrences in nature as a kind of contextual cheating, or irrelevance, but mu is found throughout all scientific investigation, and nature doesn't cheat,

Robert M. Pirsig

#8. I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

George Coyne

#9. Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

George Coyne

#10. It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.

Paul Douglas

#11. The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

George Coyne

#12. Scientific investigation, narrowly conceived, does not prove materialism. Rather, materialism arises from confusing two distinct moves: (1) the narrow scientific strategy of focusing on what is material and (2) the claim that the narrow focus is all that there is.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#13. The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

Phillip E. Johnson

#14. The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#15. The children had been using these spatulas as oars, but rowing a boat is very hard work, particularly if one's traveling companions are too busy bragging to help out, and Violet was trying to think of a way they might move the boat faster.

Lemony Snicket

#16. May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

#17. The peaks sat in judgement over the town, reminding us humans just how insignificant and temporary we were.

Joss Stirling

#18. It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

Johannes Brahms

#19. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

John Muir

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Lynnette Kuipers

#21. If you want your place in the sun you've got put up with a few blisters.

Paul Matthews Van Buren

#22. No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

Robertson Davies

#23. There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

George Eliot

#24. Right Angles Make Right Thinkers.
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Irene Groot

#25. Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

John Granger

#27. Designing Woman was written for the screen.

Vincente Minnelli

#28. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

Leonardo Da Vinci