There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
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 Image
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists… Most of these people are… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do… — 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… — 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,… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull…… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
As advertising always convinces the sponsor even more than the public, the scientists have become sold, and remain sold, on the idea… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved… The precise… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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