Brian Earp

“Outside their domains of expertise, scientists may be no more well informed than ordinary people. Indeed, they may be less so as their intense training in one area can lead them to be undereducated in others.”
― Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?

“In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.”
― Albert Camus

“assumptions are not perceived as such.”98 They are so embedded as to go unrecognized as assumptions, and this is most likely to occur in homogeneous communities.”
― Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?

“How are we to evaluate the truth claims of science when we know that these claims may in the future be overturned? Elsewhere I have called this problem the instability of scientific truth.16 In the 1980s, philosopher Larry Laudan called it the pessimistic meta-induction of the history of science.17 He observed (as have many others) that the history of science offers many examples of scientific “truths” that were later viewed as misconceptions”
― Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?