Force Quote by Vera Rubin

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

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

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

— Claude Bernard

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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