Careful Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

— James Jeans

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

— Paul Valery

It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is…

— Wilfred Trotter

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

— Michael Ruse

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Albert Einstein

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

— Susie Dent

We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what…

— Judith Butler