Complexity-of-life Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Science asymptotically approaches reality.”

— Philip C. Plait

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

“Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.”

— Marcelo Gleiser

“That's the trouble with science. Always upending itself. Ruining perfect systems for the little inconvenience of them being wrong.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned…

— Andy Hargreaves

“In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The…

— Stuart Firestein

“Increasing complexity is unsustainable”

— Giles Colborne

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

“For every theory there has to be counterevidence--otherwise science wouldn't progress.”

— Haruki Murakami