Stay updated with breaking news from David Legates. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
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.