Impediments Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit…

— David Hume

“science cannot even make probability judgements on”

— Richard Dawkins

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

— Stephen Schneider

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

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it…

— Sara Sheridan

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

— Thomas Huxley

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate…

— Mpho Leteng

“It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and…

— Richard P. Feynman