Expectations Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

— Martin Gardner

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

“The same trend is noticeable in the scientific realm: research here is for its own sake far more than for the partial and fragmentary…

— René Guénon

“From year to year, and from age to age, we see [biologists] at work, adding no doubt much to the unknown, and advancing many…

— Robert Chambers

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there…

— Jim Peebles

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us…

— Karl Mannheim

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are…

— Humphry Davy

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be…

— Margaret Mead

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and…

— Justus von Liebig

As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were…

— J. Allen Hynek