Belief Quote by John Reader

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

— Vera Rubin

“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin…

— Gene Wolfe

...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to…

— William James

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“All of us can get lost in the sea of humanity and just think that we are who and what other people say we…

— Keith Craft

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but…

— Henri Poincare

Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although human beings…

— Noam Chomsky

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox,…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of…

— Maria Montessori