Scientific Study

Famous quotes containing the words scientific and/or study:

“A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

“The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)