Quotes About Open-mindedness

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.

I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. "—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Anche se prendiamo strade diverse, se scopriamo possibilità differenti e torniamo dalla spedizione con esperienze diverse e quindi con soluzioni diverse, non dobbiamo ritenere che nessuna di esse sia inutile a priori, o escluderle in linea di principio solo per il fatto che sono diverse dalla nostra soluzione, inevitabilmente per noi preferibile.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.

When I learn new things I change my mind, what do you do?

I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do

compassion, skepticism, and uncertainty rather than on dogma

None taken, son. I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my arse.

Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.

curiosity is the key to creativity