#scientific knowledge

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. ↗

— Max Planck

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The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

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At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people. ↗

— William John Wills

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