“For
every scientist and medical professional hacking at the roots of cancer,
there are tens of thousands hacking at the branches or even studying
the leaves of the tree.” Henry David Thoreau
“Experts
were quoting data based on inaccurate research. I never pay attention
to ‘experts.'” Richard
Feynman
“There
is nothing that is a more certain sign of insanity that to do the same
thing over and over and expect the results to be different.”
Albert Einstein
"The
most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers...
[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of news
writers who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth,
[invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers.
This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing
the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." Thomas
Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers
8:632
“It
doesn't make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or
what his name is - if it disagrees with real-life results, it is wrong.
That's all there is to it.” Richard Feynman -Nobel Prize winner
“The
only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar
territory.” Paul Fix
“The
significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them.” Albert
Einstein
“…If
you said to most members of the general public, ‘Physicians have
been trained in such a manner that they have no idea how to read a paper
from the original medical literature or how to interpret it, that would
surprise the public,’ Guyatt [a physician leading the evidence-based-medicine
movement] says. ‘The public's image of physicians has been such
that it would be shocking to them that there hasn't always been evidence-based
practice.…" What Doctors Don’t Know (Almost Everything),
by Kevin Patterson, The New York Times Magazine (5 May 2002), pp. 74-79.
“The
illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot
read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler,
Author of Future Shock
"For
a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
for Nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman
"The
thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them.
It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing
are as different as night and day." Dr. Herbert Ley, former
FDA commissioner, 1970
“If
we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
Albert Einstein
“The
trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt.” Bertrand
Russell
"Much,
if not most of the contemporary medical practices still lack scientific
foundation." Technology Follies, in the Journal of the American
Medical Association (269:3030; 1993).
"Belief
without understanding is stupidity. Mere generalized statements without
sharp, specific conclusions are meaningless." Prof. Brian Peskin
“Logic:
The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations
of human misunderstanding.” Ambrose
Bierce
“The
experts who are leading you may be wrong.… We get experts on everything
that sound scientific … They’re not scientific. They sit
at a typewriter and they make up something … make up all this
stuff as science and become an ’expert.’… They haven’t
done the work necessary. There’s all kinds of myths and pseudo
science all over the place.” The Pleasure of Finding Things
Out by Richard Feynman, 1999.
“The
most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries,
is not 'Eureka' but 'That's funny....'".” Isaac
Asimov
“Men
occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” Winston
Churchill
“It's
not that I'm smart, it's just that I stay with the problem longer.”
Albert Einstein
"It
turned out that all the experts had been quoting, some second or third
hand, from one experiment. I never pay attention to 'experts.' I calculate
everything myself."
Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winner
It
is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends
upon his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair
“I
know that most men, including those at ease with the problems of the
greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious
truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions
which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have
proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread,
into the fabric of their lives.” Leo
Tolstoy, Russian author, of War and Peace (1863-69) and Anna Karenina
(1875-77)
“Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
"I
would rather discover a single fact, even a small one, than debate the
great issues at length without discovering anything at all."
Galileo Galilei
“All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it
is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The
important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert
Einstein
"Finding
a cure for cancer is absolutely contraindicated by the profits of the
cancer industry’s chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery cash trough."
Dr Diamond, M.D.
“The
scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be able
to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
Nicola Tesla
"The
great tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an
ugly fact." Thomas Huxley
"Discovery
consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody else
has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize-winner
for discovery of vitamin C.
"Let
God strike him who does not know, and yet presumes to show others the
way..." Old Persian Proverb
"The
point is to get it right... not to sweep under the rug all the assorted
puzzles and inconsistencies that frequently occur in the collection
of data." Paul Meier - Damned Liars and Expert Witnesses, Journal
of American Statistical Association, Vol. 81
"For
a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman
