Anomalies Quote by Hans Eysenck

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

— Charles H. Townes

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

— Ernst Mayr

“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided…

— Andrew Hodges

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors…

— Seth Shostak

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and…

— Robert Winston

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive,…

— Anonymous

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of scientific…

— Peter Agre

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

— Bill Bryson

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its…

— Lord Kelvin

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their…

— John Dewey