Occupation: Writer Birth: February 28, 1915 Death: October 2, 1987
It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is ….
I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary ….
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the ….
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was a….
I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is….
I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I believe this to be the common lot of people ….
Science is the art of the solvable..
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to ….
All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance.….
Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact….
It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry ….
I regret my disbelief in God..
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be hear….
The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them..
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only becaus….
An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well..
Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth..
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or tho….
The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has….
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erec….
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/….