Skip to content

Even though I think they're probably usually wrong, minority opinions in science are very useful. It keeps the whole process honest ...

— Steven Novella

Another quote →

Topics

Science

More quotes by Steven Novella

I think science is best taught as a puzzle to be solved.

Ignorance is a low-energy state. It takes constant vigilance and work to climb out of it.

Isn't the future necessarily going to be dominated by machine life?

There's a host of scams that are evolving all the time.

It's similar to … somebody who is stoned thinking that they are really profound.

All Steven Novella quotes →

You may also like

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Steven Novella (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.