Richard Dawkins, Science In The Soul: Selected Writings Of A Passionate Rationalist Quotes
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.
The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.