In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Carl SaganTags: science politics religion
Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.
Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)
Tags: science
the mind is a neural computer
Steven PinkerTags: science
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
Erwin SchrödingerTime is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
Terry PratchettBefore it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.
Richard RhodesTags: science inspirational
Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.
David BrinTags: science
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of Newton's ‘Principia’, is Darwin's ‘Origin of Species.
Thomas Henry HuxleyTags: science knowledge biology history goal metaphor justification ocean analogy isaac-newton newton business charles-darwin darwin illimitable inexplicability infinite intellectual origin-of-species possessions principia solidity unknown
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Isaac Newton4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in favor of novelty
Thomas JeffersonTags: science inspiration inquiry evidence astronomy-nerd book-of-joshua contradiction critical-examination divine-inspiration examine joshua livy new-testament probability supernatural tacitus testimony
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