Hilary Mason Quotes

Research is creating new knowledge.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Science is what scientists do.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Experimentation is an active science.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.