Books Quote by Ronald Fisher

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading…

— James Bryant Conant

The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error…

— John William Strutt

“Real understanding of any scientific subject must include some knowledge of its historical growth; we cannot comprehend and accept modern concepts and theories without…

— Colin Cherry

Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a…

— Anthony Standen

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“We noted in Section II that an increasing reliance on textbooks or their equivalent was an invariable concomitant of the emergence of a first…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of scientific…

— Peter Agre

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great…

— Woodrow Wilson

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“Textbooks, however, being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to be rewritten in whole or in part whenever the language, problem-structure,…

— Thomas S. Kuhn