Reality Quote by Philip C. Plait

“When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”

— Carl Sagan

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except”

— Carl Sagan

“We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series…

— Anne Rice

Research in the natural sciences operates in successive approximations. We are glad to be able to offer many good problems for research by generations…

— Jim Peebles

“Real science is recognizing an outcome, not always about reinforcing your theory.”

— Jeffrey Fry

“For every theory there has to be counterevidence--otherwise science wouldn't progress.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.”

— James Rozoff

“What happens to the world when science stops evolving?”

— Jennifer Ott

“This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking…

— Michael Crichton

“Scientific progress isn’t a parade of miraculously wrong theories—it’s an optimistic snowball, gathering the structure of reality as it rolls.”

— Amanda Gefter