Robert Winston Quotes

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

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

Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

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

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

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.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

The bedrock of science is the unwillingness to accept authority.

The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

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

I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.