Accounts Quote by Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

“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 suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no…

— Carl Sagan

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for…

— William R. Brody

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those…

— Carl Sagan

“The human condition to ignore or dispel ideas is an admission of fear by oneself and refusing to seek out the phenomena of the…

— Alastair Agutter

I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown.…

— Chloe Benjamin

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads…

— Lisa Randall

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

— Holly Hunter

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson