Quotes about "Science & Discovery"

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. ”

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. ”

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ”

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects. ”

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. ”

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road. ”

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity. ”

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. ”

I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things. ”

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas? ”