Crank Quote by Gregory Benford

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but…

— Paul Feyerabend

The only rule of science is that it has no rule.

— Vikrant Parsai

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous…

— Richard P. Feynman

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

— Richard Dawkins

“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks…

— Sean Carroll

My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the…

— Paul Davies

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

— Max von Laue

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth,…

— Paul Davies

“events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe.”

— Stephen Hawking

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

— Tom Bethell