Fantasies Quote by Carl Sagan

“Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.”

— D.A. Blankinship

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”

— Carl Sagan

“Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being…

— Walter de la Mare

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except”

— Carl Sagan

“Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.”

— Mark Frost

“She who believes that science will inescapably solve humanity’s oldest problems and radically change the human lot in this world is the one who…

— Giannis Delimitsos

“The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“You could know the science of a thing and still find the phenomenon mysterious and mystical, and feel small and vulnerable in the face…

— Dean Koontz

“By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and…

— Brenda Maddox

“From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological…

— E. O. Wilson