Contradictory Quote by Max Planck

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something…

— Vannevar Bush

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive…

— Carl Sagan

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads…

— Lisa Randall

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge,…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science ...

— Barack Obama

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…

— Wilfred Trotter

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also…

— Claude Bernard

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

— Kary Mullis

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried…

— Margaret Mead

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

— Mark Twain

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

— Anonymous