Authority Quote by Galileo Galilei

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

— Galileo Galilei

“ Sì perché l'autorità dell'opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le presenti osservazioni…

— Galileo Galilei

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

— Jacque Fresco

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

— Michel de Montaigne

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a…

— Carl Sagan

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet…

— Max Tegmark

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

— Walter Bagehot

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

— Hippocrates

Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came…

— Greg Graffin

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

— Benjamin Cardozo