Science Quote by Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

“The Western scientific community, and actually all of us, are in a difficult spot, because in order to maintain our current mode of being,…

— Cleve Backster

“The scientific community has lost its original sense of responsibility.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments…

— Martin Guevara Urbina

Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that…

— James Surowiecki

What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.

— Simon Singh

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes…

— Peter Agre

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

— Karl Popper

“When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that…

— Walter Gilbert