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“For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :”
Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lakatos (1978, p. 31) cited in: Jean Pierre Colson (1989) Krashens Monitortheorie. p. 40.
“For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge... Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. But few realize that with this the whole classical structure of intellectual values falls in ruins and has to be replaced.”
Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 92 as cited in: Anthony C. Thiselton (2007) The Hermeneutics of Doctrine. p. 166.
“Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.”
Howard S. Becker (1928–2023) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Becker (1978) in: Creative Camera No.163-174. p. 70.
“The sundering of a scientific from a poetic truth is the primal mark of the administrative mind.”
Russell Jacoby (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cybernetics offers a scientific approach to the cussedness of organisms, suggests how their behaviours can be catalysed and the mystique and rule of thumb banished.”
Gordon Pask (1928–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In any case there is an intense modern interest in machines that imitate life. The great difference between magic and the scientific imitation of life is that where the former is content to copy external appearance, the latter is concerned more with performance and behavior.”
William Grey Walter (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cybernetics is still headline news, and increasingly we hear about its applications to new fields of scientific and industrial endeavour. Stafford Beer's new book Cybernetics and Management is an admirable account on the relation that exist between cybernetics and the problems of management in industry [and]... covers a range of applications that have not previously been dealt with in print.”
Frank Honywill George (1921–1997) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George (1960) "Automatic controls in industry" in: New Scientist. 7 jan 1960. p.48
“Consciousness is an incredibly delicate subject because it offend. It's a subject that scientific groups kept away from. They said it was a philosophical concept.”
Igor Aleksander (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ad Aertsen succeeds in allowing his sense of humour to shine through the deep seriousness of his scientific ethos. He also has a very balanced attitude to the question of "theory or experiment".”
Valentino Braitenberg (1926–2011) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Braitenberg cited in: "Ad Aertsen - an expedition into the brain" uni-freiburg.de, 2010
“The first scientific postulate is the objectivity of nature: nature does not have any intention or goal.”
Jacques Monod (1910–1976) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology by Jacques Monod, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, ISBN 0-394-46615-2
“Applying this approach, systems belonging to different scientific disciplines are investigated in their natural forms. On the basis of experimental results, isomorphic relations between different systems are studied and, finally, some general principles applicable for all systems of a certain class are formulated.”
George Klir (1932–2016) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 97 as cited in: B. Van Rootselaar (2009) Annals of Systems Research. p. 114: About the aim of general systems theory
“Decision tree - The most picturesque of all the allegedly scientific aids to making decisions. The analyst charts all the possible outcomes of different options, and charts all the latters' outcomes, too. This produces a series of stems and branches (hence the tree). Each of the chains of events is given a probability and a monetary value.”
Robert Heller (1932–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My own view is that both endogenous and exogenous elements are important in explaining innovation. Incentives certainly play a role, but so does the general state of scientific knowledge, which is not directly produced by profit-making entities.”
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Macrocontext of the Microeconomics of Innovation", in E. Sheshinski, R.J. Strom and W.J. Baumel (Eds.) Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of the Free-Enterprise Economies (2007)
“This book is intended as an exploratory sketch of a revolutionary scientific perspective and conceptual framework as it might be applied to sociocultural systems. This point of view and still developing framework, as interpreted here, stems from the General Systems Research movement and the now closely allied fields of Cybernetics and information or communication theory.”
Walter F. Buckley (1921–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Systems theory pursues the scientific exploration and understanding of systems that exist in the various realms of experience, in order to arrive at a general theory of systems: an organized expressing of sets of interrelated concepts and principles that apply to all systems.”
Béla H. Bánáthy (1919–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In scientific information, then, we find that subjects - the themes and topics on which books and articles are written - cluster into fields, each of which can be analysed into its characteristic set of facets of terms.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.”
Ted Cruz (born 1970) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with the Texas Tribune, Washington Post (March 24, 2015)
“Maps, due to their melding of scientific and artistic approaches, always involve complex interaction between the denotative and the connotative meanings of signs they contain.”
Alan MacEachren (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cartography as a discipline has a significant stake in the evolving role of maps within systems for scientific visualization, within spatial decision support systems, within hypermedia information access systems, and within virtual reality environments.”
Alan MacEachren (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Geovisualization integrates approaches from visualization in scientific computing (ViSC), cartography, image analysis, information visualization, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and geographic information systems (GISystems) to provide theory, methods, and tools for visual exploration, analysis, synthesis, and presentation of geospatial data (any data having geospatial referencing).”
Alan MacEachren (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most scientific cartography is concerned with the dissemination of spatial knowledge.”
Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We may once again modify our statement of the purpose of geography to read: the study that seeks to provide scientific description of the earth as the world of man.”
Richard Hartshorne (1899–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have discovered in this past decade that thinking, and decision, are not solely the province of the metaphysicist, but are appropriate subjects for scientific inquiry.”
Robert E. Machol (1917–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The finds were of extreme interest to the Second Men, but not in the manner which the Siberian party had intended, not as a store of scientific and philosophic truth, but as a vivid historical document. The view of the universe which the tablets recorded was both too naïve and too artificial; but the insight which they afforded into the mind of the earlier species was invaluable.”
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The history of mathematics is important also as a valuable contribution to the history of civilization. Human progress is closely identified with scientific thought. Mathematical and physical researches are a reliable record of intellectual progress.”
Florian Cajori (1859–1930) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 4; Cited in: Moritz (1914, 90); Study and research in mathematics
“Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or Socialism, means the re-organization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime.”
August Spies (1855–1887) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spies (1887 cited in: Lucy Eldine Parsons, August Vincent Theodore Spies (1969) Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists. p. 20
“If philosophy of religion is to become scientific, it must become empirical and found itself on religious experience.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Critical Terms for Religious Studies (2008) by Mark C. Taylor, p.100
“If philosophy of religion is to become scientific, it must become empirical and found itself on religious experience. The Hindu philosophy of religion starts from and returns to an experimental basis. Hindu thinker readily admits of other points of view than his own and considers them to be just as worthy of attention.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Governments have an obligation to preserve their populations’ cultures as world heritage in accordance with the aim of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote diversity and oppose cultural imperialism.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All scientific research is of utmost significance in the world-view of Islam, for it enables us to comprehend better and better the fact that all creation is based upon a definite divine plan, and is thus apt to strengthen and deepen our conviction of God's existence and omnipotence”
Muhammad Asad (1900–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This seems to me to be more a day for a searching of the human soul perhaps than for any kind of scientific celebration.”
Bill Downs (1914–1978) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In discussing the Ivy Mike thermonuclear tests in an appearance on See It Now, November 2, 1952
“I'm sure 'I used it all, just to be on the safe side' is not the greatest piece of scientific advice out there!”
Simon Mayo (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sir Ronald has befuddled us, mesmerized us, and led us down the primrose path. I believe that the almost universal reliance on merely refuting the null hypothesis as the standard method for corroborating substantive theories in the soft areas is a terrible mistake, is basically unsound, poor scientific strategy, and one of the worst things that ever happened in the history of psychology.”
Paul E. Meehl (1920–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientific advance is most generally a response to real need.”
Walter Rodney (1942–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientific management consists in correct interpretation of phenomena, in exact knowledge of laws, principle and the influence of conditions upon results: and in the skilled use of methods adapted to the almost infinitely varying circumstances of individual cases - Engineering magazine -”
Herbert N. Casson (1869–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The claim that industrial agriculture is the only way of feeding a large population is about as scientific as a belief in Creationism - and far more damaging.”
David Fleming (1940–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lean Logic, (2016), p. 164, entry on Food Prospects
“I grew up in Dallas, Texas, drinking sodium fluoridated water. All the scientific studies show my IQ has been reduced by at least 20 points. The shadow of who I would have been calls out from the grave.”
Alex Jones (born 1974) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Question Your Reality, 11 February 2008.
“Well, Mister President, with all due deference to you, I don't believe in natural-born generals except where they have had proper military training, and it seems to me the siege of Vicksburg is too important a matter to trust to anybody except a scientific military man; besides, if you take troops from Grant and Sherman to give them to McClernand, you will weaken the army.”
David Dixon Porter (1813–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Miguel Sarmiento] "The principle of all existence is cause and effect. Scientific knowledge illuminates causes so that men are not condemned to go on living ignorantly in effects.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Miguel Sarmiento, to Alicia] "I do not wish to be disrespectful of your beliefs, but in my view religion is no more than superstition, a way to explain natural phenomena for which there are now rational and scientific explanations. Those superstitions may have served their purpose once, but their time has passed. The longer they persist, the more pernicious they become.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Universe is a cosmos and not a chaos. There exists a mental affinity; a scientific law; a rhythm of mental relationship in which the entire living world is held together, in one web of love.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From a scientific point of view, the risks from climate change are more serious than from nuclear power. Climate change is hard to control, but nuclear power can be controlled to an extent.”
Stephen Shen (born 1949) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stephen Shen (2013) cited in "No nuclear power, more carbon: minister" on Taipei Times, 21 March 2013.
“Introspection with inference and meaning left out as much as possible becomes a dull taxonomic account of sensory events which, since they suggest almost no functional value for the organism, are peculiarly uninteresting to the American scientific temper.”
Edwin Boring (1886–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 174; As cited in: Danziger (1980;257)
“Enlightened humanity has sought in rational definiteness its liberating refuge from the dominating influence of the merely authoritative. At the present time, however, this has for a large part been lost to consciousness, and to many people scientific validity that has to be acknowledged appears as an oppressing authority.”
Paul Bernays (1888–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a result of scientific man's creativity there arises an ordered, illumined, determined world, imprinted with the stamp of creative intellect, of pure reason and clear cognition. From the midst of the order and lawfulness we hear a new song, the song of the creature to the Creator, the song of the cosmos to its Maker.”
Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.”
Ragnar Frisch (1895–1973) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ragnar Frisch (1926); Quoted in: "Ragnar Frisch 1895-1995." O. Bjerkholt, 1994.
“Once again IITians & those engaged in cutting edge scientific research are in forefront of challenging & correcting distorted narratives on Indic faiths floated by Wikipedia.”
Madhu Kishwar (born 1951) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Madhu Kishwar on Twitter on 13 Jan 2019
“Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.”
Paul Kurtz (1925–2012) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paul Kurtz (1983) In defense of secular humanism, p. 15
“I wish it to be thoroughly under stood that it is Mr. Seurat, an artist of great worth, who has been the first to conceive the idea of applying the scientific theory after making a profound study of it. I have only followed, like my confreres, the example set by Seurat.”
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: autograph letter 6 Nov. 1886, to Mr. Durand; as quoted in Brush and Pencil, Vol. XIII, no. 6 , article: 'Camille Pissarro' Impressionist'; by Henry G Stephens, March, 1904, pp. 412-13
“One is led to conclude that economics as a scientific discipline is still somewhat hanging in the air.”
Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source