Kenneth R. Miller Quotes

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

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

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

Modern science's defense against self-delusion relies upon a spirit of open and critical inquiry. This, though hardly infallible, ostensibly uncovers errors and thereby proceeds towards objective truth

Facts are placed before reasonings and before ideals, even though the reasonings and the ideals be more beautiful, be seemingly more lofty, be seemingly better, be seemingly truer. The seemingly absurd and the seemingly impossible are sometimes true. The scientific disposition is to accept facts upon evidence, however absurd they may appear to our pre-conceptions.

We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

My colleagues have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it, however it may jar against their inclinations.

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

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

Science has changed the face of this earth: it has harnessed the forces of Nature -- forces whose secret laws it had first to discover -- it has created practically a new world within the memory of men living….Science -- the scientists -- doesn't pretend to have grasped in its fingers the Eternal Truth …Science doesn't demand that one believe or be damned. Science reasons. Science investigates. Science tests itself….Science works -- builds -- quietly prevails -- promises little and performs much.

But whereas skepticism and uncertainty have always been the heart and soul of science, confidence and certainty are the coin of the realm in much of today’s public discourse. Unquestioning confidence is deeply troubling for the scientific community because it is not the currency we trade in, and it has led people in America and around the world to question scientific enterprise itself. We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

I am very pro-science.

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.