Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had - Michael Crichton
Traditional scientific method has always been, at the very best, 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go - Robert Pirsig
The world needs a science of love, of peace, of happiness, of hope, of life, of positive thinking, feeling, action and spirit for our mysterious journey in the universe - Robert Muller
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane - Nicola Tesla
The purpose of science is not to analyse or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it - Edward De Bono, I am Right you are Wrong
Science is all metaphor - Timothy Leary
Not only does science know why the tsunami happened, it can give precious hours of warning. If a small fraction of the tax breaks handed out to churches, mosques and synagogues had been diverted into an early warning system, tens of thousands of people, now dead, would have been moved to safety. Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering - Richard Dawkins
It's important to leave the security of who we are, and go to the place of who we are becoming. I encourage you to let yourself out of any prison you might find yourself in. Because we have to do something now. We have to change now - environmental advocate John Francis, who went 17 years without speaking, TED2008
It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else, even if it be a scientific one - Sigmund Freud
In all my writings I have advocated for years that we should apply scientific methods to the study of bold concepts modeled by humanity over the millennia to keep it on an upward path, concepts such as hope, love, beauty, joy, happiness, faith. Scientists shy away from them because they do not lend themselves so easily to scientific investigation. But if we try, we will discover many things - Robert Muller