Activity Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“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

“is in the realm of privacy where creativity, dissent, and challenges to orthodoxy germinate. A society in which everyone knows they can be watched…

— Glenn Greenwald

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject…

— Sam Harris

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

— Naomi Oreskes

“Scientific and religious beliefs are important to people; but they are (usually) neither foundational premises, backing one outcome in advance against all others, nor…

— Louis Menand

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other…

— Hannes Alfven

We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways…

— B. Alan Wallace

At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the…

— David Sarnoff

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

— Carl Sagan

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

— Leon Kass

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by…

— Jill Lepore

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of…

— Karl Marx