Future Quote by Jean Rostand

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a…

— Max Planck

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100…

— Leo Szilard

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is…

— Alice Dreger

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science…

— Henry David Thoreau

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories…

— Dean Ornish

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand…

— Anonymous

“Science not only describes, it predicts. It deals not only with the past but with the future. Nor is prediction the last word: to…

— B.F. Skinner

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the…

— Albert Einstein

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

“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue and will…

— Larry Fort