Consensus Quote by Michael Crichton Download Open image “Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.” — Michael Crichton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consensus Enough Science Scientific theory Situation Skepticism
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“it is important to recognize that the behavior of the two antagonists mirrors each other, like a Rorschach inkblot. The value of a Rorschach… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people-people of… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken… — Andre Glucksmann Copy Share Image
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I always worked as an individual artist even when Group Material asked me to join the group. There are certain things that I can… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
