Scientifically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations (2nd Edition)
C. C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither
Language: English
Pages: 497
ISBN: B00UVBI5TG
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In these days of ever-increasing specialization, it is important to gain a broad appreciation of science. Entertaining and informative, Scientifically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations, Second Edition contains the words and wisdom of several hundred scientists, writers, philosophers, poets, and academics. The largest compilation of published science quotations available, the book presents quotations that give depth and breadth to science, and provides the visions and styles of scientists past and present. The bibliography is useful if you want more details about the quotations listed. The extensive author and subject indexes provide the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure. This book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference.
Chomsky, Noam Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Chicago Tribune In Ron Grossman Strong Words Asking the Questions 1:5, Section 5, January 1, 1993 Conant, James Bryant . . . experimental discoveries must fit the time; facts may be at hand for years without their significance being realized; the total scientific situation must be favorable for the acceptance of new views. On Understanding Science Chapter III (p. 74) Davy, Sir Humphrey Imagination, as well as reason, is
Love, and Logic Deduction, Induction, Hypothesis (p. 149) Planck, Max For every hypothesis in physical science has to go through a period of difficult gestation and parturition before it can be brought out into the light of day and handed to others, ready-made in scientific form so that it will be, as it were, fool-proof in the hands of outsiders who wish to apply it. Where is Science Going? From Relative to Absolute (p. 178) Popper, Karl R. The best we can say of a hypothesis is that up to now
structure hopefully in correspondence with what we observe . . . It’s an architecture, a cathedral. There is an ancient 118 MAGIC 119 human longing to impose rational order on a chaotic world. The detective does it, the magician does it. That’s why people love Sherlock Holmes. Science came out of magic. Science is the modern expression of what the ancient magician did. The world is a mess, and people want it to be orderly. In George Johnson In the Palaces of Memory The Memory Machine (pp.
asks not what are the currently most important questions, but, “Which are at present solvable?”, or sometimes simply, “In which can we make some small but genuine advance?” As long as the alchemist merely sought the philosopher’s stone and aimed at finding the art of making gold, all their endeavors were fruitless; it was only when people restricted themselves to seemingly less valuable questions that they created chemistry. Thus natural science appears completely to lose from sight the large and
which lights up at once. Claws, sharp and hooked, are ascribed to it with great elegance, because the axioms and arguments of science penetrate and hold fast the mind, so that it has no means of evasion or escape. Selected Writings of Francis Bacon Sphinx on Science (pp. 418–9) The divisions of the sciences are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk. In J.A. Thomson Introduction to Science Chapter IV (p. 92) Balfour, A.J.