Analyzing Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

— Marshall McLuhan

The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a…

— Konrad Zuse

“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

— George Wald

One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their…

— John Silber

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although human beings…

— Noam Chomsky

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing”

— Konrad Lorenz