Charlatans Quote by Sean Carroll

“The only ‘failure’ of quantum theory is its inability to provide a natural framework for our prejudices.”1”

— Matthieu Ricard

All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there…

— Murray Gell-Mann

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

“I think that the obscurity of the theory is not the fault of quantum mechanics but is rather due to the limited capacity of…

— Carlo Rovelli

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

— Robert Barany

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

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

— Rene Thom

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

— Niels Bohr

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

— Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”

— Carl Sagan

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some…

— George Coyne

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something…

— Vannevar Bush