Quotes About Acceptance

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden's mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.

?Consciousness is simple, if you are bold enough to accept it as simple.

What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.

The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are.

Memories tell me who I was, not who I'll become. They don't fix the present any more than they fix the past.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't