“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
John Green book Paper Towns
Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 282
Paper Towns (2008)
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French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867–1934Related quotes
“The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) British-American anthropologist
The second sentence is often misquoted as “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” or “Religion gives us certainty without proof; science gives us proof without certainty.”
Context: Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
“No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian
Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 1, Scientific Method and the Social Sciences, p. 34
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist
Source: What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
Steven D. Levitt (1967) American economist
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (1978), p. 235
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“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist
Robert M. Sapolsky (1957) American endocrinologist
Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech (2003)
Context: I am a reasonably emotional person, and I see no reason why that's incompatible with being a scientist. Even if we learn about how everything works, that doesn't mean anything at all. You can reduce how an impala leaps to a bunch of biomechanical equations. You can turn Bach into contrapuntal equations, and that doesn't reduce in the slightest our capacity to be moved by a gazelle leaping or Bach thundering. There is no reason to be less moved by nature around us simply because it's revealed to have more layers of complexity than we first observed.
The more important reason why people shouldn't be afraid is, we're never going to inadvertently go and explain everything. We may learn everything about something, and we may learn something about everything, but we're never going to learn everything about everything. When you study science, and especially these realms of the biology of what makes us human, what's clear is that every time you find out something, that brings up ten new questions, and half of those are better questions than you started with.
Freeman Dyson (1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician
Pt. 1, Ch. 10
Disturbing the Universe (1979)
