Quotes with extra-scientific

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  • Busy Philipps I have the emergency kit in my purse that has double-sided tape and Tylenol, and a small energy bar. I'm the one that has an extra lip gloss just in case.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Adam Osborne I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Alan Dershowitz I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Bryan White I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Cynthia Ozick I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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  • Carl Sagan If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.
    Cosmos (1980) p. 67
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alfred Korzybski If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Ben Goldacre If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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  • C. S. Lewis If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 22
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Goldacre In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Carl Sagan In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Bill Gates In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Sir John Harvey It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
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  • Bonnie Hunt It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Caroline Rhea It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.
    Caroline Rhea
    Canadian–American actress (1964 - )
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