Combat Quote by Claude Bernard

Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.…

— Claude Bernard

Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows…

— Claude Bernard

“Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.…

— Gary Taubes

[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

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the…

— Margaret Mead

“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the…

— Dean Radin

This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting…

— W. R. Thompson

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

— Albert Einstein

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

— Vilfredo Pareto

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

— John Locke

Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“All I can think is that this would be so much easier if we were dealing with a completely different set of people who…

— Veronica Roth