Susan Desmond-Hellmann Quotes

But whereas skepticism and uncertainty have always been the heart and soul of science, confidence and certainty are the coin of the realm in much of today’s public discourse. Unquestioning confidence is deeply troubling for the scientific community because it is not the currency we trade in, and it has led people in America and around the world to question scientific enterprise itself. We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honor, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

I'm a firm believer in science.

A true conservative is on the side of science.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science rules!

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

Let’s end President Bush’s war on science—muzzling the scientists and taking information off websites.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.

I'm on the pro-science side of the Republican Party.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.