“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
“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive” PeopleWellsWould BeUsedResultsKnowingDogPercentTasksScientistRewardsPunishmentExperimentsPerformingSixtyReplacedEarning Author:Steve Aylett
“There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.” PeopleWayUseHandsScienceDifferencesDarknessKnowingMankindIgnoranceReadyDiscoveryScientistTireNot Ready Author:Jimmy Sangster
“The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.” WayShouldMatterAbleDealsKnowingEssentialsScientistPreparedBe PreparedKnowing Everything Author:Hermann Bondi
“There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.” ThinkingKnowsWantTwoCareScienceClassKnowledgeKnowingScientist Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler