Characteristics Quote by Anthony Standen

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science ...

— Barack Obama

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive…

— Carl Sagan

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and…

— Robert Winston

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

— Martin Gardner

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

— Peter David

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual…

— Derek Barton

I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.

— Sean M. Carroll