Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.

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.

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

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

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.

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.

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

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Today's truth is tomorrow's null hypothesis-and next years's error.

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are usually wrong, and we test them against the data. Scientists do this in a formal way. It's a way that everyone can go through life; that's how we should be teaching science from a very young age.

I really like research.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

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

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

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

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

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

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

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

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.