Argument Quote by Hilary Kornblith

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

— Steven Pinker

I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I believe this…

— Peter Medawar

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately…

— Harvey Pekar

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

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

— Carl Sagan

As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific"…

— James Hillman

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

— Paul Dirac

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried…

— Margaret Mead

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good…

— Kenichi Fukui

It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the…

— Alfred Tarski

Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be…

— Louis Menand