Argument Quote by Carl Sagan

One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly…

— Noam Chomsky

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

“In so many introductory science classes, the chemist [Dudley Herschbach] observed, students encounter what they see as "a frozen body of dogma" that must…

— Ken Bain

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading…

— James Bryant Conant

Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes…

— Peter Agre

“Because science carries us toward an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be, its findings may…

— 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 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

The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept…

— Frederick Seitz

The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came…

— Louis de Broglie

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of scientific…

— Peter Agre