Scientific Theory Quotes - Page 2

• The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

  Karl Popper

  Art, Science, Simple

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.44, Routledge

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• La mecánica cuántica es ciertamente imponente. Pero una voz interior me dice que aún no es la verdadera. La teoría dice mucho, pero no nos acerca a los secretos del "Viejo". Yo, en todo caso, estoy convencido de que Él no juega a los dados.

  Albert Einstein

  Dios, Real, Voz

  Citado en Einstein: The Life and Times (p. 340)

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• When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Science, Epic

  "The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1996.

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• Tengo dudas. Tal vez Dios es malicioso.
  Se lo dije a Valentine Bargmann.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Valentine, Second Thoughts

  Quoted in Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America (1985).

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• En ciencia, el mérito es del hombre que convence al mundo, no del hombre al que se le ocurre la idea por primera vez.

  Francis Darwin

  Empresa, Ciencia, Hombres

  Eugenics Review, abril de 1914

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• Los creacionistas hacen que parezca que una "teoría" es algo que se te ha ocurrido después de estar borracho toda la noche.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sueño, Religioso, Ateo

  "Como rodar cuesta arriba: Darse cuenta de la honestidad del ateísmo". Libro de Dianna Narciso, 2004.

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• La idea de una mente universal o Logos sería, creo, una inferencia bastante plausible a partir del estado actual de la teoría científica.

  Arthur Eddington

  Pensamiento, ideas, diseño

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• No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

  Douglas Yates

  Acceptance, Technology, Achieve

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• A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.

  John Ziman

  Years, Clarity, Creeps

  "The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society". Book by John Ziman, p. 98, 1976.

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• Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Hands, Needs, Growing

  Cargill Gilston Knott (2015). “Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

  Karl Popper

  Theory, Myth

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.50, Routledge

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• ...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Dark, Careers, Perspective

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• One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

  Henri Poincare

  Doe, Theory, Convenient

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• A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Barmaids, Should, Theory

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• Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.

  Geoffrey Miller

  Philosophy, Issues, Rights

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• El argumento de la indispensabilidad pretende asimilar la epistemología de los enunciados metafísicos a la epistemología de los enunciados que son obviamente empíricos. Creo que no consigue este objetivo. El argumento no refuta la tesis carnapiana de que las teorías científicas y las afirmaciones metafísicas difieren epistemológicamente: las observaciones pueden aportar pruebas de las primeras, pero no de las segundas.

  Elliott Sober

  Thinking, Goal, Doe

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• El heroísmo extremo surge de algo que ninguna teoría científica puede explicar plenamente; es un impulso ilógico que se enfrenta a la biología, la psicología, las estadísticas actuariales y el sentido común.

  Christopher McDougall

  Spring, Common Sense, Psychology

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• There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a conscious experience. We don't even have the beginnings of a theory whose conclusion would be "such a system is conscious.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Brain, Would Be, Neurons

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, uk.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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• My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Color, Choices

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 412, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Adventure, Arriving

  "Religion and Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. I: Ground of Conflict, 1935.

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• Según mi definición, una teoría científica es una explicación propuesta que se centra o apunta a datos físicos observables y a inferencias lógicas. Hay muchas cosas a lo largo de la historia de la ciencia que ahora pensamos que son incorrectas y que, sin embargo, encajarían en esa definición. Sí, la astrología es de hecho una de ellas.

  Michael Behe

  Pensamiento, Astrología, Datos

  "Kitzmiller contra el distrito escolar de Dover". Transcripción del juicio: Día 11, www.talkorigins.org. 18 de octubre de 2005.

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• The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say that I don't directly discuss the work of those philosophers who would disagree.) But even if we grant this, many will argue that scientific knowledge in humans, and, indeed, reflective knowledge in general, is quite different in kind from the knowledge we see in other animals.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Successful, Animal, Track

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.

  Jon Jones

  Theory Of Evolution, Facts, Alternatives

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• We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

  David Hilbert

  Theory, Masters, Mathematical

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• Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

  Duane Gish

  Evolution, Creation, Theory

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