A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.

quote by Maurice Allais
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Skeptic

Since a good scientist
Is always a skeptic
He doubts
That his mother
Truly loves him.

But because his mother
Truly loves him
He is a bad scientist.

poem by Paul Hartal
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We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

quote by Kenichi Fukui
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

quote by Jared Diamond
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Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

quote by Conan O'Brien
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I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

quote by Martin Fleischmann
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

quote by Ernest Rutherford
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Dreams are a scientific fact.

quote by Robyn Hitchcock
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It's not rocket science. It's social science.

quote by Clement Mok
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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

quote by Bill Condon
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Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

quote by Michael Polanyi
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A scientist should be the happiest of men.

quote by George Wald
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

quote by Wellington Mara
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

classic quote by Konrad Lorenz
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There's no term to the work of a scientist.

quote by Walter Reisch
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

quote by Brian Aldiss
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The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

quote by Sheri S. Tepper
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Science is Unscientific

The Professor rose from his chair.
He moved the book to the middle
Of the table as he stood up.

"Now, listen! " he said in an amicable voice.
"Science prides itself in being factual,
objective, precise, unbiased, detached
and verifiable, free from introversion,
a way of knowing things without added colours
and portraying accurately the physical world
in its own light".

The Turtle was sipping his ginger ale.

"Oh, this description of science is nothing
but a myth", he said. "As I see it,
even the most magnificent accomplishments
of science involve emotions,
an individual sense of wonder and curiosity,
the psychological experience of the rapturous

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poem by Paul Hartal
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Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Science has not done away with cruelty. It has only given it a scientific character.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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