Science Quote by Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.

— Peter Medawar

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in…

— Peter Medawar

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

— Vannevar Bush

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.…

— Vannevar Bush

“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth: Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.”

— Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and…

— Yann Martel

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

— John Charles Polanyi

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do.…

— Margaret Wertheim

When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.'…

— Martin Rees

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson