Self-Correcting quotes

Yuval_Noah_Harari

Self-Skepticism

“The trademark of science is not merely skepticism but self-skepticism, and at the heart of every scientific institution we find a strong self-correcting mechanism.”

• Source: Yuval Noah Harari writing in his book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’. Published in 2024 by Random House. Kindle edition. Chapter 4 page 104. ISBN 978-0593734247.

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  • Yuval_Noah_Harari_quotes
  • Yuval_Noah_Harari_quotes/Self-Skepticism

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Carl_Sagan

Wrong Hypothesis OK

“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.”

• Source: Carl Sagan, Quoted in Donald R. Prothero and Carl Dennis Buell, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters (2007), 3.

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  • Carl_Sagan_quotes
  • Carl_Sagan_quotes/Wrong_Hypothesis_OK

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Science Is Not Perfect

“[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.”

• Source: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1985), 277

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  • Carl_Sagan_quotes
  • Carl_Sagan_quotes/Science_Is_Not_Perfect

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