A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

97 percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change.

— Bernie Sanders

“Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.”

— Mark Kurlansky

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors…

— Seth Shostak

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the…

— Fischer Black

On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent…

— George Gerbner

Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a settled question:…

— Michio Kaku

Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are…

— Derek J. de Solla Price

“Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds…

— Sherman Alexie

“The reality is that the uncertainty involved means we do not know with precision whether we can achieve either of those goals; nor do…

— Michael R. Bloomberg

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent…

— Frank Herbert

“I only know now that the scientists are wrong. The world is flat. I know because I was tossed right off the edge and…

— Tahereh Mafi

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

— Harry Houdini

You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean, it's accepted…

— Jerry Greenfield

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge,…

— Stanley B. Prusiner