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Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

— Stanislav Grof

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

— Tim Hunt

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

— Linus Pauling

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

— Dan Shechtman

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

— Rupert Sheldrake

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

— Auguste Comte

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

— Huston Smith