Consensus Science Quotes

#1. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

Michael Crichton

#2. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

Michael Crichton

#3. I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.

Martin Rees

#4. This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

Stephen Jay Gould

#5. The challenge for physics is deriving the consensus reality from the external reality, and the challenge for cognitive science is to derive the internal reality from the consensus reality.

Max Tegmark

#6. If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

Tim Ferriss

#7. The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.

Max Tegmark

#8. The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Daniel Dennett

#9. Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Bill Cosby

#10. The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Al Gore

#11. The primary claim made by the IPCC and other warmists was that there was a 'consensus' among the world's scientists, but anyone familiar with science knows that it does not operate on consensus.
--Shouting from the Rooftops, Warning Signs blog, December 20, 2012

Alan Caruba

#12. I know how well I can play. I don't mention myself with the other players. I mention myself with the best.

Jaromir Jagr

#13. Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

Orson Scott Card

#14. The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.

Judith Curry

#15. Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Burt Rutan

#16. You should never have a job that you hate so much you think "Thank God it's Friday" every week of your life.

Kim Gruenenfelder

#17. You try so hard to make something that's fun and exciting, then all anyone wants to talk about is how no-one likes you. It gets very grinding. I had to let the chip I have on my shoulder about that go.

Andy Biersack

#18. The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

Veronica Roth

#19. Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.

Allison Mackie

#20. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Michael Crichton

#21. Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.

Orson Scott Card

#22. I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

Ben Stein

#23. The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

Marco Rubio

#24. Because a man's greatest fear is not being a man, something that never occurs to a woman (not being a woman, that is).

Paulo Coelho