If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are incapable of communica…

- Anthony Standen

It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible exper…

- Anthony Standen

There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes…

- Anthony Standen

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justif…

- Anthony Standen

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the …

- Anthony Standen

Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has…

- Anthony Standen

The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that th…

- Anthony Standen

We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains…

- Anthony Standen

Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, …

- Anthony Standen