Belief Quote by Peter Medawar

“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its purpose remains…

— Barbora Jiřincová

It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works.…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

I don't deny that scientific investigation is capable of delivering important truths about nature, but that doesn't stop questions about whether, as it is…

— Philip Kitcher

It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that…

— Peter Medawar

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should.…

— Sigmund Freud

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

— Frank Herbert

Chris Ferguson brought up a really interesting point that I agree with, and he said science is a human endeavor. The more someone tells…

— Jason Schreier

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is…

— John B. S. Haldane

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

— Anne Roe

It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's…

— Philip Kitcher

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

— Albert Einstein

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right…

— Bertrand Russell