“I came to the subject a True Believer in dark matter, but it was MOND that nailed the predictions for the LSB galaxies that I was studying (McGaugh & de Blok, 1998), not any flavor of dark matter. So what I am supposed to conclude?”

— Stacy McGaugh

[Stacy McGaugh, http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/burn1.html, Why "Consider MOND?"] at astroweb.case.edu. Accessed 2014.

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Stacy McGaugh (1964) American astronomer

A Tale of Two Paradigms: the Mutual Incommensurability of LCDM and MOND, Stacy McGaugh, 29 Apr 2014, updated 17 May 2014 http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7525,

“But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

Letter to Cadwallader Colden (23 April 1752).
Epistles

“It is difficult to falsify the hypothesis of dark matter, because, as with Ptolemy's epicycles, true believers can always add additional arbitrary features and free parameters to overcome any conceivable difficulties that occur with the dark matter models.”

John Moffat book Reinventing Gravity

Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 10, Modified Gravity (MOG), p. 163-164

“And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Variant: I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
Source: Every Day

“I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).”

Charles Clarke (1950) British Labour Party politician

Education Secretary Clarke, Letter to the Guardian, May 2003

“I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

“The current cosmological paradigm, the cold dark matter model with a cosmological constant, requires that the mass-energy of the Universe be dominated by invisible components: dark matter and dark energy. An alternative to these dark components is that the law of gravity be modified on the relevant scales. A test of these ideas is provided by the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR), an empirical relation between the observed mass of a galaxy and its rotation velocity. Here, I report a test using gas rich galaxies for which both axes of the BTFR can be measured independently of the theories being tested and without the systematic uncertainty in stellar mass that affects the same test with star dominated spirals. The data fall precisely where predicted a priori by the modified Newtonian dynamics.”

Stacy McGaugh Novel Test of Modified Newtonian Dynamics with Gas Rich Galaxies

[21 March 2011, Novel test of modified Newtonian dynamics with gas rich galaxies, Physical Review Letters, 106, 12, 121303, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.121303]