Apples Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an “accident,” as in the case…

— Jean Piaget

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

— Robert Rankin

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can…

— Anonymous

It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided…

— Andrew Hodges

Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but…

— Anonymous

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the…

— Henry David Thoreau

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every…

— Walter Isaacson

It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be…

— John Stuart Mill

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject…

— Ian Stevenson

“and predictions. Science is often presented as ‘the facts’, frequently in”

— Nick Lane

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing…

— John Ruskin