Accepted Quote by Paul Feyerabend

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but…

— Paul Feyerabend

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's…

— Geoffrey West

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

— Max Weber

The only rule of science is that it has no rule.

— Vikrant Parsai

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

— Halton Arp

[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting,…

— Carl Sagan

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have…

— Robert Pollack

“There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting…

— Carl Sagan

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore…

— Stanley B. Prusiner