Be a man Quote by Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if…

— Jacob Bronowski

“But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

“If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their errors will…

— Angus Menuge

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

— Isaac Asimov

“Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an…

— Daniel Gardner

In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members…

— Colin Robinson

“Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to…

— Gustave Flaubert

I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has…

— William Stanley Jevons

We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in…

— Louis Pasteur

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the…

— Richard Dawkins

The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed…

— Michael Faraday

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only…

— James G. Frazer