Accepting Quote by Lewis Wolpert

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was a terrible science student, and for a long time, I thought I just didn't understand science. It turned out that I didn't…

— Deborah Harkness

“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac…

— James Gleick

“My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward.... 'Think what it must have been like for…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural…

— Richard Owen

The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the…

— William Jennings Bryan

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by…

— Isaac Asimov

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

— Robert M. Pirsig

We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that…

— Thomas Dwight

I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of…

— Ann Druyan

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

— Kirk Cameron