Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. Ernst Mayr
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. Ernst Mayr
Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
In the light of the physicists have,I think,some justification for their faith that they are building on the solid rock of fact,and not,as we are often so solemnly warned by some of our scientific brethren,on the shifting sands of imaginative hypothesis. Ernest Rutherford
In the light of the physicists have,I think,some justification for their faith that they are building on the solid rock of fact,and not,as we are often so solemnly warned by some of our scientific brethren,on the shifting sands of imaginative hypothesis.
I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. Ernest Lawrence
I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment.
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment. Ernest Lawrence
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. Ernest Lawrence
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
Modern warfare is in every respect so horrifying, that scientific people will only regret that it draws its means from the progress of the sciences. Hermann Emil Fischer
Modern warfare is in every respect so horrifying, that scientific people will only regret that it draws its means from the progress of the sciences.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. David Hilbert
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. Claude Lévi-Strauss
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. Charles Darwin
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. Charles Darwin
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.