Accounts Quote by Lewis Thomas

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

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

— Richard Feynman

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

— Thomas Carlyle

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is uncertain.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Vera Rubin

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

— Brian Greene

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

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

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

— Georges Canguilhem