Ambition Quote by Pierre Duhem

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

— Francis Parker Yockey

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

— John Maynard Keynes

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

— Jean-Marie Lehn

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the…

— John William Draper

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

— Henri Poincare

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

— Mary Hesse

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld