Authority Quote by Thomas Huxley

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley”

— Thomas H. Huxley

“Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as…

— Albert Einstein

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid…

— Anonymous

Authority. The antithesis of science.

— Stephen Baxter

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

— P. J. O'Rourke

“[All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by…

— Brian Cox

“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.”

— Barbara Johnson

The accumulation of knowledge is a powerful thing.

— Kirk Cousins

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

— Anonymous

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes…

— Edward W. Said

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

— James Clerk Maxwell