It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast.
Konrad Lorenz
On Aggression (1966)
Konrad Lorenz on hypotheses
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P. J. O’Rourke on mistrusting science
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or a wild animal.
P. J. O’Rourke
Parliament of Whores (1991)
Enrico Fermi on particle names
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If I could remember the names of all these particles I’d be a botanist.
Enrico Fermi
Quoted in R. L. Weber, More Random Walks in Science (1973)
Fran Lebowitz on Scientists
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Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony – they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.
Fran Lebowitz
Metropolitan Life (1978)
Mark Twain on Science
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi (1883)