Nature Quote by Hannah Arendt

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to…

— Max Delbruck

“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

Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to think new…

— Gregory Bateson

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science,…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

— Henry H. Bauer

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

— Subhash Kak

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

— Anonymous

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

— William Temple

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

— Saint Basil

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

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

— Anonymous

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

— David Landes