“It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.” IfsChanceTheoryObviousDarwinism Author:Richard Dawkins
“The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction - a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory - who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.” MayLyingChanceViewsTeachingFieldsTheoryObviousPoint Of ViewPeculiarQuantumChances AreFashionable Author:Richard P. Feynman
“It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.” WantBelieveSaidStatesSeemsLanguageAnimalDoorsDogMastersTheoryBabySpeechOrdinaryPhilosophicalObviousDenyMilkInfant Author:John Searle
“You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.” PeopleBelieveTheoryObviousRidiculousNovelistsConspiracyPlaywrightInventingSatiricalConspiracy TheoryEssayists Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.” NeedsProblemTheoryMathematicsObviousMathematicianBuilderProblem Solvers Author:Timothy Gowers
“The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.” FactsHelpingPurposePrinciplesInformationStudentsCollegeTheoryObviousAcquireJustificationCollege EducationGeneralization Author:Derek Bok
“One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.” UseMightScienceViewsTheoryReaderLimitsIntentionObviousImpressionTalesObservationFairyConvincePairsFairy TaleMistakenMetaphysicalMultiplicityScientific MethodEpistemologyMethodology Book:Against Method Source: Against Method
“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 true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.” FirstsTheoryTestsObviousBrilliant Author:Assar Lindbeck