A Quote by Charles Babbage

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage
English - Mathematician
December 26, 1791 - October 18, 1871

There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

Octavio Paz

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Herbert Hoover

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Michael Scott

I think one should take criticism in one's stride and prove oneself. In fact, I would like to thank my critics as their criticism gave me the fire and passion to prove myself.

Kunal Khemu

It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Martin Rees

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Don't be sensitive if I should, in future, seem brusque, harsh, or even unjust in my criticism. I sincerely hope I never shall be; but if I should, remember that fault-finding is perhaps both my privilege and my weakness, that correction is the only road to improvement, and that my quick temper and illness are entitled to some consideration.

Joseph Pulitzer

Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.

Cees Nooteboom

We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.

Kitty Ferguson

When I said that the court should be willing to suffer even intemperate criticism, I did not mean that people should level intemperate criticism. What I said is even if criticism is intemperate or unfair and bordering on scurrilous and abusive, it will be understood for what it is by the people.

Prashant Bhushan

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Francis Crick

Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.

Carl Hart

I love the criticism because if there was no criticism then what can you work on and what can you get better at?

Collin Sexton

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

Kanye West

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

Northrop Frye

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.

James Elkins

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