If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is pleasure the… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists… Most of these people are incapable of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists. — Anthony Standen Copy Share
Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance,… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull… Everything has… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of feline digital… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. — Anthony Standen Copy Share
Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do is an… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions"… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the… — Anthony Standen Copy Share
