Louis C. K. 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).

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

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

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

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

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

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

Proof rather than argument.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

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.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

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

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

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.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.