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Charles Darwin
INPUT: I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met not a few men, who... have often thus been deterred from experiments or observations which would have proven servicable.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
William James
INPUT: Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Leo Tolstoy
INPUT: I know that most men, including those at ease with 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.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Arthur C. Clarke
INPUT: It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible. When this happens, the most well-informed men become blinded by their prejudices and are unable to see what lies directly ahead of them.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Mark Twain
INPUT: When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
MBTI: INFP
SOCIONICS: INFj
Henri Poincare
INPUT: Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
H. Bauer
INPUT: It is not uncommon for engineers to accept the reality of phenomena that are not yet understood, as it is very common for physicists to disbelieve the reality of phenomena that seem to contradict contemporary beliefs of physics.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Herbert Spencer
INPUT: There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-- that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Wilbur Wright
INPUT: If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it.
MBTI: ENTJ
SOCIONICS: ENTj
Thomas Gold
INPUT: It\'s like religion. Heresy [in science] is thought of as a bad thing, whereas it should be just the opposite.
MBTI: INFP
SOCIONICS: INFj
Carl Sagan
INPUT: You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don\'t see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
H.G. Welles
INPUT: New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, \'Why then are you not taking part in them?\'
MBTI: ESTP
SOCIONICS: ESTp
Martin Gardner
INPUT: Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.
MBTI: INFP
SOCIONICS: INFj
Arthur C. Clarke
INPUT: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Louis Armstrong
INPUT: There are some people that if they don\'t know, you can\'t tell \'em.
MBTI: ENFJ
SOCIONICS: ENFj
Wilfred Trotter
INPUT: If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Thucydides
INPUT: When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
MBTI: ENTP
SOCIONICS: ENTp
Robert Goddard
INPUT: It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
MBTI: ISFP
SOCIONICS: ISFj
M. Truzzi
INPUT: \'Type one\' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. \'Type two\' error is thinking that nothing special is happening, when in fact something rare or infrequent is happening.
MBTI: ISTP
SOCIONICS: ISTj
J.A. Wheeler
INPUT: If you haven\'t found something strange during the day, it hasn\'t been much of a day.
MBTI: ESTP
SOCIONICS: ESTp
Lewis Thomas
INPUT: It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity, filled to overbrimming as we are with questions, and naturally talented as we are for the asking of clear questions, and then for us to do nothing about, or worse, to try to suppress the questions...
MBTI: ISTP
SOCIONICS: ISTj
Paul Kurtz
INPUT: Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
F. Barron
INPUT: The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.
MBTI: ISFJ
SOCIONICS: ISFp
Schopenhauer
INPUT: Talent hits a target no-one else can hit; genius hits targets no-one else can see.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Marcel Proust
INPUT: The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Edwin Schrodinger
INPUT: The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
MBTI: ISTJ
SOCIONICS: ISTp
H. D. Thoreau
INPUT: A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Mark Twain
INPUT: You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
MBTI: ESTP
SOCIONICS: ESTp
Max Planck
INPUT: The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
G. C. Lichtenberg
INPUT: With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Stephen Hawking
INPUT: If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory...it makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Francis Crick
INPUT: Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don\'t know where you\'re going. You\'re just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.
MBTI: ENTJ
SOCIONICS: ENTj
T. H. Huxley
INPUT: The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
MBTI: ENTJ
SOCIONICS: ENTj
Robert Oppenheimer
INPUT: There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
R. Pirsig
INPUT: It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, \'Go away, I\'m looking for the truth.\' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
MBTI: INFP
SOCIONICS: INFj
B.F. Skinner
INPUT: A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Francis Bacon
INPUT: They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
MBTI: ENFJ
SOCIONICS: ENFj
J.G. Holland
INPUT: Who never walks save where he sees men\'s tracks makes no discoveries.
MBTI: ENTP
SOCIONICS: ENTp
John Tyndall
INPUT: It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
MBTI: ISTJ
SOCIONICS: ISTp
W. I. Beveridge
INPUT: Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Emerson
INPUT: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
MBTI: ISTJ
SOCIONICS: ISTp
Sir Martin Rees
INPUT: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
MBTI: ENTP
SOCIONICS: ENTp
Konrad Lorenz
INPUT: It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
MBTI: INFJ
SOCIONICS: INFp
William J. Durant
INPUT: Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Richard Feynman
INPUT: If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain... In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Carl Sagan
INPUT: Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis - which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism - especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested - and you\'re not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Mark Twain
INPUT: The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
MBTI: ENTJ
SOCIONICS: ENTj
Goethe
INPUT: Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be defeated, but they start a winning game.
MBTI: ENFJ
SOCIONICS: ENFj
Emerson
INPUT: Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
MBTI: INFJ
SOCIONICS: INFp
T.S. Elliot
INPUT: The end of our exploring will be to arrive at where we started, and to know the place for the first time.
MBTI: ESFP
SOCIONICS: ESFp
Aristotle
INPUT: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
MBTI: ENTP
SOCIONICS: ENTp
J. Bahcall
INPUT: I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate from the first nanosecond of creation to the last 10^10 years, on the basis of three or four facts which are not very accurately known and are disputed among the experts.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Lewis Thomas
INPUT: On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life\'s work.
MBTI: ESTP
SOCIONICS: ESTp
C. G. Jung
INPUT: Science... is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Carl Sagan
INPUT: Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Albert Einstein
INPUT: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Beverly Rubik
INPUT: You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Ray Hyman
INPUT: As a whole, parapsychologists are nice, honest people, while the critics are cynical, nasty people.
MBTI: ENFP
SOCIONICS: ENFp
Linus Pauling
INPUT: Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
MBTI: ENTP
SOCIONICS: ENTp
Leo Burnett
INPUT: To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
MBTI: ISTP
SOCIONICS: ISTj
Marshall McLuhan
INPUT: Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Howard Aiken
INPUT: Don\'t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you\'ll have to ram them down people\'s throats.
MBTI: ENTJ
SOCIONICS: ENTj
Charles Brower
INPUT: A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke, or worried to death by a frown on the right person\'s brow.
MBTI: INFJ
SOCIONICS: INFp
Don Marquis
INPUT: If you make people think they\'re thinking, they\'ll love you; but if you really make them think they\'ll hate you.
MBTI: INFJ
SOCIONICS: INFp
John Keats
INPUT: The only means of strengthening one\'s intellect is to make up one\'s mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
MBTI: ISTP
SOCIONICS: ISTj
G. Goebbels
INPUT: A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.
MBTI: INTP
SOCIONICS: INTj
Robert Heinlen
INPUT: Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
MBTI: INTJ
SOCIONICS: INTp
Wenher von Braun
INPUT: My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the moon. I\'d like to ask you, don\'t hang up your dancing slippers.
MBTI: ESFP
SOCIONICS: ESFp
Voltaire
INPUT: A witty saying proves nothing.
MBTI: INFJ
SOCIONICS: INFp
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