Consensus Quote by David Douglass Download Open image “Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.” — David Douglass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consensus History Science Scientific truth Truth
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth: Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.” — Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science Copy Share Image
The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves… — David Douglass Copy Share Image
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge… — David Douglass Copy Share Image
However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data… — David Douglass Copy Share Image
On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations... — David Douglass Copy Share Image
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people-people of… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken… — Andre Glucksmann Copy Share Image
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I always worked as an individual artist even when Group Material asked me to join the group. There are certain things that I can… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
