Balanced Quote by Isaac Asimov

Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

— Steven Novella

If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

— Jens Lekman

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion…

— Michael Polanyi

“people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Lewis Wolpert

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific…

— Anonymous

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To conclude is…

— G.K. Chesterton

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.”

— Adam M. Grant

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

— Peter Medawar

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

— Stephen Jay Gould