Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

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 the case.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

I love this sport and I absolutely love the support you guys give me; and I will continue to do it until I can't.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

Despite whoever created it, it's my world, & the only one I've got. Might as well make the best of it, right? Might as well have a little fun while I'm here. Or a lot of fun. Might be dead tomorrow.

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people.