“I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.” PeopleCareInterestingTheoryBattlePercentAgreeRageTinyRadicalMost InterestingTheorists Author:John Waters
“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
“Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast. For, we are assured, it is well known that in the natural sciences we start from observation and proceed by induction to theory. And is it not obvious that in history we proceed very differently? Yes, I agree that we proceed very differently. But we do so in the natural sciences as well.” WellsSeemsScienceNaturalDifferencesKnownTheoryEvidenceAgreeObviousObservationWell KnownAssuredMethodologyNatural Science Book:The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality Source: The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
“The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron.” MindFirstsIdeasMatterRealityTodayFormEnergySpaceIdentityTheoryShapesScientistAgreeMereIncludingAncientIntuitionDestroyedTemporaryTime And SpacePhysicistRelativityElectronsTheories Of Relativity Book:Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982
“Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.” MeanFactsTheoryAgreeNutsPoolHostile Author:Terence McKenna
“Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.” LongTheoryAgreeFavorsDefendersAtheistic Author:Elliott Sober