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There is no science for the teguments of a leaf, for the filaments of a cell structure, the winding of a vein, the passion of a habit, or for the twists and quirks of character.
A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.
I am not a scientist.
We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.
This argument is not the barrel of drugged trout that Methodological Descriptivism was, but it's still vulnerable to objections.
I'm not just a scientist.
I contend that a univariate mindset has caused ecologists and others studying natural systems to develop and cling to simplistic theories that fail to mature.
Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.
Modern formulaic society will try to make you "normal," rushing to call pseudoscientific anything you can do that they can't.
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing.
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.
[Flanagan's motto as magazine editor for selecting content to put in Scientific American.]
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.
Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.
All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.
Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.
Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
There is nothing less scientific than to deny something because it cannot be explained.
If anyone imagines that scientists are dispassionate and impartial people, discussing theories and ideas unemotionally in the cool clear light of reason, they have been seriously misled.
But dividing the mind into "biological" and "psychological" is as fallacious as classifying light as a particle or a wave. The natural world makes no promise to align itself with preconceptions that humans find parsimonious or convenient. (167)
Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.
Science cannot even make probability judgements on
Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.
Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. - STEVE
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
It cannot be maintained that empirical science provides a complete explanation of life, the interplay of all creatures and the whole of reality.
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.
Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind.
The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
Science is not always what scientists do.
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.
The truth of scientific research, just like the truth behind many equally complex areas of study, is that the people behind them are far more human than we tend to admit.
It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and always hampered by the persistence of incomplete world views.
Scientific knowledge does not contain within itself directions for its humanitarian use.
Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.
The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.
Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.
Creation is scientific.
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.
A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too often serve power and greed, the ambitions of competing nation-states, or the requirements of commerce.
We have concluded that "Intelligent Design" is not science, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
Human science is an uncertain guess.
On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns warm or cold is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that "in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis".
Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.
These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.
Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being.
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
All science asks is to employ the same levels of skepticism we use in buying a used car or in judging the quality of analgesics or beer from their television commercials.
As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
Scientific naturalism has proven incapable of accounting for a whole range of human experiences, from simple self-awareness to love.
It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.
Science is not wisdom.
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
Nothing is more vulnerable and ephemeral than scientific theories, which are mere tools and not everlasting truths.
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.
Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.
... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice, which is unnecessary and destructive. More than anything, more than the unnecessary ownership of the obvious, it is disempowering.
Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
Science is uncertain.
Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.
[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.
He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.
Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.
Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
Science probes; it does not prove.
"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.
In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science'. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.
careful evaluation of various surveys has taken place and support the idea that the number of qualified scientists believing global warming is primarily man-made is less than three percent - rather than ninety-seven percent.
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts ... but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.
[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.
Conscience is wiser than science.