Ifs Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

— PZ Myers

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

— Thomas Huxley

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

— John Burroughs

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

— Thomas Carlyle

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

— Michael Behe

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is…

— Paul Davies

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science ...

— Barack Obama

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 the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

— Kitty Ferguson

Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art…

— Charles Sanders Peirce