Force Quote by Vera Rubin Download Open image “Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.” — Vera Rubin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Force Preconceptions Science
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science… — John Reader Copy Share Image
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,'… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Those insights in science that have led to a breakthrough were not logically derived from preexisting knowledge: The creative processes on which the progress… — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science,… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
