George Wald Quotes

Science is nothing but perception.

No political cliche can stand up to reality.

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.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

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

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

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

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.

I think I was a born scientist.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion

To govern well, one must see things as they are.