Academic Quote by Woody Allen

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

— Mary Henle

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

— Max Planck

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…

— Wilfred Trotter

“As both Herschel and Whewell would remark in their writings on science, the scientific process is inevitably a social one. Discoveries are not made…

— Laura J. Snyder

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

— Cornelia Parker

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

“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”

— Tirumala

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

— Lionel Trilling

“And one of the hidden secrets of science, passed down from a few rare teachers to their grad students, is how to avoid flushing…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt