Acceptance Quote by Carl Sagan

“If you’re only sceptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything. You become a crochety misanthrope convinced that…

— Carl Sagan

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive…

— Carl Sagan

Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us…

— Carl Sagan

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong.…

— Lisa Randall

“The limits of science have always been the source of bitter disappointment when people expected something from science that it was not able to…

— Karl Jaspers

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with…

— Lewis Thomas

There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I…

— Lisa Randall

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…

— Wilfred Trotter

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also…

— Claude Bernard

“The mental framework that makes science enjoyable is accessible to everyone. It involves curiosity, careful observation, a disciplined way of recording events, and finding…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of…

— Richard P. Feynman

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading…

— James Bryant Conant