現代科学で何かが重要かを特定することは判断の問題であり、自分が正しいと知ることはできないのだということも言っておかねばならない。の英語

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.

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".

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.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

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

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

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

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

The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil.

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.

Knowledge is power, but it is power for evil just as much as for good.

One doesn't only live their life as an individual human, without realizing it, that person lives their life within their era and with the people within that era.

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.

Many men nowadays seem to have the feeling that in vast modern societies there is nothing of importance that the individual can do.

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

Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into existence. Perhaps it's even me.

As a result, it is undeniable that important disciplines and moral education have been neglected. By placing excessive importance on scholastic achievement, many parents have forgotten such basic social courtesies as consideration for others.

By placing excessive importance on scholastic achievement, many parents have forgotten such basic social courtesies as consideration for others.

The scientist has a love of facts, even isolated facts, similar to the poet's love of words.

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.

It is important that a lawyer should leave no stone unturned even on minor points and harp on the same subject to achieve a break through in an impasse.

At any time in history, in any country you can think of, a child grows up borrowing from parents' values. There are some who would point out that the kind of mentality towards education that some women called "education mama" have, is actually emotionally scarring for the child.

As children are known to emulate the values of adults, it is often pointed out such "education mamas" instill a warped sense of values in their children.

In the hands of a wise person, things become really simple. It's a mediocre person, pretending to be wise, that makes an easy thing sound difficult.

And we can communicate so many things in so many ways - with our faces, hands, bodies, and voices. We can even write our thoughts in words.

17th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty

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