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Bryan Appleyard
(24 Aug 1951 - )
English author and journalist whose books range from Richard Rogers:A Biography (1986) about the architect, to Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience (1998), among others
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Science Quotes by Bryan Appleyard (1 quote)
Its [science’s] effectiveness is almost inevitable because it narrows the possibility of refutation and failure. Science begins by saying it can only answer this type of question and ends by saying these are the only questions that can be asked. Once the implications and shallowness of this trick are fully realised, science will be humbled and we shall be free to celebrate ourselves once again.
— Bryan Appleyard
From Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science (2004), 249.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
