“We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.” IfsKindMayCareMissingHavensTheoryTypeFoolIntegrityFameResearchGainsScientistAgreeCarefulExperimentsReputationExcitementRepeatsTemporaryDisagreeCultCargoGood ReputationWrong Or RightTruth Will Come Out Author:Richard P. Feynman
“I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.” IfsMindSometimesReasonCareKnowingAtheismEvidenceScientistPassionateI CareCantImpatientCharlatansHumbug Author:Richard Dawkins
“Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.” KnowsEnoughCareAtheismScientistAtheistDon't Care Author:Steven Weinberg
“The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.” ThinkingKnowsShouldTryingMayCareAbilityIssuesSubjectsEffectsPositionParticularPlanetsScientistAddressesBroadsEquilibriumGreenhousesGeneral PublicVisibility Author:Richard Lewontin