Alive Quote by George Eliot

“Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

— George Eliot

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

— Jean-Marie Lehn

“Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma.”

— Sam Harris

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

— Bertrand Russell

“The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious…

— Sam Harris

“Science is only scientific for as long as it is open to self-criticism. When scientists refuse to embrace new findings because they support spirituality,…

— Robin Sacredfire

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

— Gloria Steinem

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

— Herbert Spencer

The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma;…

— Sam Harris

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

— Mary Hesse

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

— Frans de Waal

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

— Jaak Panksepp