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In introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Deamon-Haunted World

When we finally come to terms with science and fully recognize its beauty and its power, we will find in spiritual as well as in practical matters, that we have made a bargain strongly in our favor

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

We've arranged a global civilisation in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. [...] . We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our face.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

to seek for such evidence and appearances as are in the favour of our desires, and to disregard those which oppose them... We reveive as friendly that which agrees with [us], we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

Science confers power on anyone who takes the trouble to learn it.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against [...] religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

Those who have something to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discouraging skepticism

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

Science may have evicted ghosts and witches from our beliefs, but it just as quickly filled the vacancy with aliens having the same functions. Only the extraterrestrial outer trapping are new. All the fear and the psychological dramas for dealing with it seem simply to have found their way home again, where it is business as usual in the legend realm where things go bump in the night.

Thomas E. Bullard (1989) cited by Carl Sagan (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are verdically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

Zelfs een wetenschap van de gevestigde orde zal alleen succes hebben als anarchistische stappen zo nu en dan worden toegelaten.

Paul Feyerabend (1993), Against Method

It is certainly true that beliefs and all mythes are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we're talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding the external reality.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

The unprecedented powers that sciences now makes available accompanied by unprecedental levels of ethical focus and concerns by the scientific community - as well as the most broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.

Sagan Carl (1996), The Demon-Haunted World

It's important to be tough, but it may be more important to be open!

Naomi Oreskes (2019) Why Trust Science?

When, ... , background assumptions are shared by all members of a community, they acquire an invisibility that renders them unavailable for criticism.

Helen Longino - Science as Social Knowledge (1990)

Nature isn't something we go to - it's where we are.

Pamela Yeh (2020), Nature Vol 578 No 7793, Where I Work

If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altuism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.

Richard Dawkins (1976), The Selfish Gene

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, first, create a universe

Carl Sagan

Kennis groeit als je je over iets verwondert.

Koos Dijksterhuis - Natuurwandelingen

Ik heb uit de wetenschapsgeschiedenis geleerd dat elk wetenschappelijk model en zeker elke theorie slechts stand houdt tot nieuwe elementen het verdringen ten voordele van meer adequate modellen c.q. theorieën; en dat geen enkele wetenschapper treurt over de goede oude die nu ten grave gedragen wordt. ...filosofen koesteren de goede oude systemen, precies alsof er niets veranderd was sinds de dagen van Aristoteles.

Ulrich Libbrecht(1995) - Inleiding tot de comparatieve filosofie. Deel 1

Laten we ... nederig en realistisch blijven en altijd voor ogen houden dat er geen modellen met "eeuwige vergunning" kunnen bestaan.

Ulrich Libbrecht (1995) - Inleiding tot de comparatieve filosofie

I have come to believe that the laws of physics cease to apply in only two places: singularities and Hollywood

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

Evidence doesn't care about approval

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

... staying humble should not prevent us from trying to get to know our universe better. Rather, it should animate us to raise our ambitions, ask difficult questions that challenge our presumptions, and then set about rigorously pursuing evidence rather than likes...

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

Wheras philosophers spend a great deal of time inside their own heads, scientist are all about having a dialogue with the world

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

Physics is a dialogue with nature, not a monologue

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

What if in the 1940s humanity had instead spent that 1.3 trillion - not tot mention the skill, expertise, muscle, and minds of between forty and one hundred million people - on the exploration of the universe.

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

To learn that other, perhaps even more advanced intelligent civilizations exits or preceded us would force us to adopt a humbler attitude toward the universe and our accomplishments

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

I have found that paying close attention to the world's most pressing news stories provides ample evidence that we cannot be the smartest species out there.

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

If we dare to wager that 'Oumuamua' was a piece of advanced extraterrestrial technology, we stand only to gain

Avi Loeb(2021) - Extraterrestrial

Veel politici, en zeker die van populistische snit, hebben de kwalijke neiging 'experts' bruusk terzijde te schuiven, en dan vooral wanneer de expertise in kwestie hun pover onderbouwde mening logenstraft.

Wat is leven?

Greek civilization ended in failure, not because of the lack of intelligence, but because of the lack of character, of morality.

Georges Sarton (1927), Introduction to the History of Science

...well-funded and trained cadre of scientific researchers is no substitute for an informed, engaged public.

Holt (2021), Science, the Endless Frontier (Revised with introduction, the Science Bargain, by Holt, 2021)

We cannot live the good life with science alone, not even if our science were a hundred times better than it is.

Sarton (1962), Sarton On The History Of Science - Essays by Georges Sarton

Intolerance is not only criminal but stupid. Intolerence does not even serve its own purpose, which is to protect the group exercising ti, for it seldom fails to jeopardize that very group, if not to destroy it

Sarton, 1962, Sarton On The History Of Science - Essays by Georges Sarton

When a good man decides to proceed in a certain direction and continues steadily, it is astounding how much he can do in a lifetime, even if the daily portion is very small

Sarton, 1962, Sarton On The History Of Science - Essays by Georges Sarton

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