Being wrong Quote by Wolfgang Pauli

It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life…

— David Grinspoon

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated…

— Cleveland Abbe

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without…

— Albert Einstein

Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident. There are…

— Stephen Schneider

“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.”

— Ted Chiang

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted…

— Anonymous

At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement,…

— Reginald Aldworth Daly

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the…

— Roger Bacon

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein