Quotes by William J Beaty

"Progress in science is something like climbing a mountain. Only most mountaineers don't set up a new basecamp every ten feet so they can leap out and attack anyone who tries to climb past them."

"The banner of "Open-mindedness" attracts charlatans and gullible fools, just as the banner of "skepticism" attracts bigots and the narrow-minded. This is no reason for the skeptical scientist to see open-mindedness as foolish gullibility, nor for the open-minded scientist to assume that all skeptics are narrow-minded bigots."