Argument Quote by 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

Authority. The antithesis of science.

— Stephen Baxter

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

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

— Anonymous

“Science will always be the source of authority for those who wish to remove God from their thinking.”

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

“Authority is an inescapable fact of political existence, and to imply that anyone who respects authority is prone to violence against the weak and…

— Dante L. Germino

“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

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

— Angelic-Demon

“What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?”

— Carl Sagan

“This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.”

— Frans de Waal

“[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

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

— William P. Young