History Quote by Ernst Mayr

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

— Robert Barany

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

— James D. Watson

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

— Peter Lilley

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

— David Douglass

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory…

— Ernst Mayr

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

— Maria Mitchell

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because…

— David Gross

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

— Thomas Huxley

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to…

— Vannevar Bush