Appreciated Quote by James Bryant Conant

“In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The…

— Stuart Firestein

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and…

— Ronald Fisher

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

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

The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error…

— John William Strutt

“[Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that a scientific…

— Brian Cox

“The modern world is drowning in information. We have more data than we can possibly use regarding nearly every picayune matter of society, economics,…

— Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes…

— Peter Agre

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for…

— William R. Brody

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also…

— Claude Bernard

“The Western scientific community, and actually all of us, are in a difficult spot, because in order to maintain our current mode of being,…

— Cleve Backster