Critical Quote by Richard Owen

“He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take…

— John Verdon

Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety…

— Humphry Davy

“The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.”

— Nisbett Borgida

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

“Dr. P. may therefore serve as a warning and parable -- of what happens to a science which eschews the judgmental, the particular, the…

— Oliver Sacks

“I had, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which…

— Kathryn Schulz

“he knew that bad premonitions have a far higher accuracy rate than good ones.”

— Haruki Murakami

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The history of science may be described as the history of the attempts, and the failures, of men "to see things as they are."…

— M.M. Pattison Muir

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself…

— Robert Nozick