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Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of very great value.

All other aspects and characteristics of science can be understood directly when we understand that observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact." — Thomas Huxley

Site says it's AP, AP says it isn't ours; story identical to 'ubercrackpot' scientist's press release.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost [tossed] upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of the castle and to see the battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject where we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.