Ignorance Quote by G Allen Burton Jr

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes…

— Peter Agre

“The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to…

— Carl Sagan

“When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The…

— Stuart Firestein

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of scientific…

— Peter Agre

“disrupts socio-technological balance, all scientific advancement due to intelligence overcoming compensating for limitations, can't carry a load so invent wheel, can't catch food so…

— Mordin Solus

“Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.”

— Morgan D. Jones

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's…

— Louis O. Kelso

“some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.”

— Ian Tattersall

First causes are outside the realm of science.

— Claude Bernard

“Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.”

— John Brockman

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta