Important Quote by Max Planck

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on…

— Peter D. Mitchell

“What happens to the world when science stops evolving?”

— Jennifer Ott

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

— Jean Piaget

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories…

— Dean Ornish

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.…

— Carl Sagan

Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to…

— Hope Jahren

“One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose…

— Bertrand Russell

Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies.…

— Bruno Latour

When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

— Josh Fox

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break…

— Russell Baker

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.”

— Adam M. Grant