Delusion Quote by Thomas Huxley

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

— Thomas Huxley

It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that…

— Peter Medawar

“The Western scientific community, and actually all of us, are in a difficult spot, because in order to maintain our current mode of being,…

— Cleve Backster

“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check,…

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“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

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

— Robert Barany

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

— Kitty Ferguson

All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about…

— Hermann Bondi

“We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant, we withhold…

— Carl Sagan

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson