Choices Quote by Enrico Fermi

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

— Dave Eggers

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

— Ursula Goodenough

“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

— Naomi Oreskes

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those…

— Carl Sagan

It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by…

— Philip Pullman

If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is…

— Richard Lewontin

“Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the…

— Edmond Halley

All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing…

— Austin Bradford Hill

But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a…

— Robert E. Ornstein