Discovery Quote by Claude Bernard

Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits…

— Claude Bernard

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

— Max Planck

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

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

— David Hume

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something…

— Vannevar Bush

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

It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means…

— Claude Bernard

Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of…

— Jacques Vallee

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

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

— Marie Curie

What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.

— Simon Singh