Age Quote by John Fowles

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s…

— Carl Sagan

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

— Rita Dove

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

— Jose Padilha

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed…

— Daniel Handler

Words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no…

— Peter B. Medawar

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume…

— David Attenborough

May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to…

— Anonymous

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

— John Dryden