Argument Quote by Carl Sagan

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

— 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

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

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

— Anonymous

[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

Authority. The antithesis of science.

— Stephen Baxter

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more…

— Michael Polanyi

We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should…

— Albert Einstein

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

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in…

— Serge Lang