Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries… — Gary Taubes
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.
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Skepticism, however, cannot be removed from the scientific process. Science does not function without it.
A colleague once defined an academic discipline as a group of scholars who had agreed not to ask certain embarrassing questions about key assumptions.
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The thing is, it’s very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right.
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