Ability Quote by Ernst Mayr

“The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.”

— Stuart Sutherland

“For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.”

— Albert Einstein

“Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect…

— Marc Bloch

... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…

— Ronald Fisher

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found…

— Richard Hamming

“When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime of truth.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there…

— Jean Rostand

“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned with somehow.”

— Nina Teicholz

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is…

— Alice Dreger

“And our resistance against changing our habits of thought is immense and unrelenting. If we try, briefly, we find it ass vexing and unrewarding…

— Sydney J. Harris

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject…

— Ian Stevenson