Awkward Quote by Carl Sagan

... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able…

— Hermann Bondi

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

— John Charles Polanyi

“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical…

— Lewis Wolpert

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

— Carl Sagan

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

— Richard P. Feynman

All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about…

— Hermann Bondi

“It may be admitted that, as far as scientific knowledge is concerned, a body of suitably chosen experts may be in the best position…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

“The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge. This has hugely expanded…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is,…

— Richard P. Feynman