Arguing Quote by William Stanley Jevons

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are…

— Paul McCartney

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost…

— Simone Weil

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

— Anthony Fauci

In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in…

— Frank Wilczek

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The problem is that once science has reduced a complex phenomenon to a couple of variables, however important they may be, the natural tendency…

— Michael Pollan

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

— Martin Gardner

“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little:…

— Jean Fresnel

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the…

— Nassau William Senior

“Because science carries us toward an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be, its findings may…

— Carl Sagan

“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that…

— Alfred North Whitehead