Dean Ornish Quotes

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Science doesn't work by voting. Did people vote on the theory of relativity? No! It's either right or it's wrong. Do we vote on whether genetics is a good theory or not? Of course not.

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

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

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

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

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

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

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

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.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

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

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