4 Quotes by Halton Arp

I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an “elegant” or “robust” theory. But it isn’t science.

After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility.

No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.