Calculations Quote by Hiram Maxim

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

— Lewis Wolpert

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.

— Anonymous

“It is wrong to equate scientific laws, as a human construct, with the absolute truth.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the…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

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result…

— Alfred North Whitehead

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

— Michael Crichton

It is surely accurate that we all are affected and effective to one another; even if we don't realize it or comprehend why.

— Sirivi Hanson

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

— Ernst Mayr

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

— Isaac Asimov

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind…

— Brian Greene

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

— Tom Bethell

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace