- Alfred North Whitehead", "\"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.\"
- Arthur C. Clarke", "\"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.\"
- John Locke", "\"All great truths begin as blasphemies.\"
- George Bernard Shaw", "\"If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.\"
- Wilfred Trotter", "\"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.\"
- Robert Goddard", "\"There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.\"
- L. Hogben", "\"The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory and is challenged by such irregularities.\"
- F. Barron", "\"The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes.\"
- Marcel Proust", "\"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.\"
- Albert Szent-Gyoergi", "\"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?\"
- Albert Einstein", "\"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.\"
- Mark Twain", "\"If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy?\"
-Stephen Hawking", "\"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.\"
- Robert Oppenheimer", "\"Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.\"
- J.G. Holland", "\"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.\"
- Galileo Galilei", "\"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.\"
- Sir Martin Rees", "\"Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.\"
- Bernhard Haisch", "\"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.\"
- Arthur Schopenhauer", "\"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.\"
- Mark Twain", "\"If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.\"
- Carl Sagan", "\"Now, my suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose; I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, in any philosophy\"
- J.B.S. Haldane", "\"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be defeated, but they start a winning game.\"
- Goethe", "\"If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.\"
-Richard Feynman", "\"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.\"
- H. Poincare", "\"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.\"
- Michael Faraday", "\"The skeptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear skeptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.\"
- Albert Einstein", "\"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'\"
- Isaac Asimov", "\"Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.\"
-Mark Twain", "\"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.\"
- Mark Twain", "\"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.\"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald", "\"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.\"
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