Science Quote by Cleve Backster

It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is…

— Thomas Huxley

“Scientific communities persistently overlooked an elementary weakness: If scientific reasoning is at issue, it cannot decide this issue.”

— Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

“The modern world is drowning in information. We have more data than we can possibly use regarding nearly every picayune matter of society, economics,…

— Jeffrey A. Lockwood

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth: Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.”

— Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

“Yet it is a fact that no amount of such enthusiasm, however sincere and profound it may be, can compel a problem to yield…

— Max Weber

“In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The…

— Stuart Firestein

“There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.”

— David Crystal

“The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get…

— Mary Midgley

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Scientific facts alone are futile without a conscientious soul to work on them.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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