その上、実験が法則に逆らって行われたことはなく、常に、十分に法則の範囲内で行われた。さもなければ、実験が実験として全く認められなかっただろう。の英語

Furthermore, experiments were never carried out against the rules but were performed always well within them - otherwise they would not be recognized as experiments at all.

An experiment, I would learn much later when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.

An experiment, I would learn much later, when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.

a theory called empirical realism

Around his facts the scientist weaves a logical pattern or theory which gives the facts meaning, order, and significance.

A scientist had to know how to ask the correct question and to state it so clearly that the answer would be, in effect, a definite yes or no, not "maybe".

It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.

Practice is as important as theory, but we are apt to value the latter and despise the former.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed

The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

More than ever do we need goals or leading ideas that will give purpose to whatever we are doing.

But this did not stop him from using his mind and presenting his ideas at physics meetings around the world.

the unconditioned command of a person's conscience, called categorical imperative

It is said that scholarship is the pursuit of truth. To the scholar, truth is everything. It is impossible to overemphasize its importance.

It must also be said that spotting what is important in current science is a matter of judgement, one cannot know that one is right.

of or relating to the religious belief that God can be known to humans positively or affirmatively

the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

The eyes themselves can become selective, ignoring part of what is there, and the brain sometimes insists on seeing things that don't exist at all.

The other thing is that I always thought about what I wanted to do rather than what I should do or what I could do.

Mastering facts patiently is far more necessary for them than learning expressive and critical skills.

the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications

Science is a good thing, but it is not an end in itself; it is a means toward an end and that end is human betterment.

any of several branches of psychology that seek to apply psychological principles to practical problems of education or industry or marketing etc.

Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.

When two armies oppose one another, those who can fight should fight, those who can't fight should guard, those who can't guard should flee, those who can't flee should surrender, and those who can't surrender should die.

As a rule, not only in humans, but also in animals, "sexual display" occurs, consciously or unconsciously, towards individuals of the opposite sex.

of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false

Instead use words like "some", "many", "often", and begin statements with openers like, "In my experience, ...", "Excuse me if I'm wrong, but...", "In many instances, ...."