Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
Interpretation
Understanding comes from the ability to replicate experiences or phenomena.
This quote emphasizes the importance of reproducibility in the scientific method. When a phenomenon can be reproduced, it signifies that the underlying principles are understood, allowing for deeper exploration and comprehension of that phenomenon. This forms a foundation for scientific inquiry and knowledge-building.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a scientific conference where researchers discuss their findings.
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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