Assumption Quote by Paul Feyerabend

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not…

— Sigmund Freud

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by…

— Humphry Davy

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general…

— Charles Darwin

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

— Sam Harris

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes…

— Phillip E. Johnson

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us…

— Carl Sagan

“Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier…

— Alfred Wegener

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

— Luther Burbank

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

— Karl Popper

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and…

— Brian Schmidt