Ability Quote by Gregory Bateson

“As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most…

— Nora Bateson

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…

— Wilfred Trotter

“Scientific thinking explores and redraws the world, gradually offering us better and better images of it, teaching us to think in ever more effective…

— Carlo Rovelli

Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by…

— Max Horkheimer

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate…

— William Kingdon Clifford

“Those insights in science that have led to a breakthrough were not logically derived from preexisting knowledge: The creative processes on which the progress…

— William Lanouette

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it…

— Robert Musil

It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is…

— Wilfred Trotter

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

“And our resistance against changing our habits of thought is immense and unrelenting. If we try, briefly, we find it ass vexing and unrewarding…

— Sydney J. Harris

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

“Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science,…

— Stephen Jay Gould