Boards Quote by Graham Hancock

“New ideas are always resisted.”

— Henning Mankell

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

— Kary Mullis

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something…

— Vannevar Bush

“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”

— Tirumala

The resistance to science is idiotic.

— Seth MacFarlane

Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has…

— Sigmund Freud

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

— Konrad Lorenz

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories…

— Dean Ornish

The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute…

— Sheldon Whitehouse