Science Quote by Max Barry

“Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Once I understood that it’s all physiological, many things became clearer to me. While I used to get angry and frustrated at people because…

— Ray Dalio

“Science explained people, but could not understand them.”

— E.M. Forster

“Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy* * some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.”

— Gregory Cochran

“You do realize that your brain is literally hardwired to generate error signals when it sees other human-shaped objects stating a different opinion from…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Now there was an alternative explanation: people disagreed about Quality because some just used their immediate emotions whereas others applied their overall knowledge.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

“You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot.”

— Toba Beta

“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I shiver, thinking about how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-- to see one tiny part of them and confuse it…

— Lauren Oliver

“When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Ironically, some of the most foolish, prejudiced comments made were the ones by wits and grumps trying to impress others with their brains.”

— Criss Jami

“Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.”

— Daniel Kahneman