Institutions Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

— Allan Sandage

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science…

— George Coyne

“A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton…

— Andrew Mayne

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.

— Nita Ambani

“It is wrong to make statements in the name of science to presuppose the truth instead of accurately representing it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is…

— Jacques Derrida

The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of significance accompanied…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“Science gives up to religion that which cannot be known, and as it does not know what it is, that cannot be known, it…

— Chapman Cohen

“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”

— Stephen M. Stigler

“Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“[All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by…

— Brian Cox