Authority Quote by Anonymous

Authority. The antithesis of science.

— Stephen Baxter

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

— Carl Sagan

“Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as…

— Albert Einstein

“Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a…

— Carl Sagan

“Most new ideas are branded as heresy, until a time when, either through science or technology, they can be proven as truth.”

— S.E. Meyer

“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine…

— Carl Sagan

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do…

— Carl Sagan

“[All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by…

— Brian Cox

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came…

— Greg Graffin

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a…

— Theodor Adorno