Bias Quote by Alva Noë

Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining…

— Sam Harris

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institutions of science but its value system, namely…

— Steven Pinker

Science is of value because it can produce something.

— Richard P. Feynman

[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they…

— Robert Watson-Watt

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

— George Santayana

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check,…

— Terry Pratchett

“The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable.”

— Carl Sagan

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement…

— Freeman Dyson

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

— Robert Barany

“The most important scientific concept is that an assertion is often an empirical question, settled by collecting evidence. The plural of anecdote is not…

— John Brockman