Lancelot Law Whyte - Science Quotes

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Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

Lancelot Law Whyte
Dogmatism in science is usually mistaken, because the conviction of certainty expresses a psychological compulsion, never any truly compelling reasons or facts. When a view attains wide popularity and seems obviously beyond question, its decline has usually begun or will begin very soon.

Lancelot Law Whyte
There is no doubt of the need for an up-to-date, balanced, and comprehensive work on the history of atomism, drawing ideas, mathematics, and experiment together into a single story. When available, it should become required reading for all students of the exact sciences.

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There are good reasons to expect... a return to a concreteness of basic ideas, to simpler fundamentals easily understood, to principles that will bring exact science closer to the human perspective.

Lancelot Law Whyte
Science does not begin with facts; one of its tasks is to uncover the facts by removing misconceptions.

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The true aim of science is to discover a simple theory which is necessary and sufficient to cover the facts, when they have been purified of traditional prejudices.

Lancelot Law Whyte
In the ultimate analysis science is born of myth and religion, all three being expressions of the ordering spirit of the human mind.

Lancelot Law Whyte
Science starts with an assumption which is always present, though it may be unconscious, may be forgotten, and may sometimes even be denied.

Lancelot Law Whyte