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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Quote by Jean Piaget about knowledge, evolution, day

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Quote by Russell Baker about objects, work

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Quote by Russell Baker about objects, work

If we wish to develop scientific research, a transport policy, public services, it is necessary to have the financial means to do so.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about research, wish, public

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding, my wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about research, wife

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about science, consequences, knowledge, change

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about character, evolution, science, knowledge, body

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact, if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

Quote by Talcott Parsons

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about revelation, war

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about religion, destruction, love

A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps.

Quote by Alexander Fleming about opinion, good, good luck

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

Quote by James Tobin about economy, revolution

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Quote by Galileo Galilei about science

Sciences changes not through linear accumulation of data, information, but through sudden leaps, through abrupte breaks, through scientific revolutions.

Quote by Thomas Kuhn about science