Martin H. Fischer Quotes

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

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

if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

Everything that people say is testable.

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

Just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.

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

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

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

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

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

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

Science is not gadgetry.

To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends. It is like saying that the purpose of a spaceship is to burn fuel. ... Passing experimental tests is only one of many things a theory has to do to achieve the real purpose of science, which is to explain the world.

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

My numbers speak for itself.

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.