Nina Fedoroff Quotes

What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

In fact, scientific results are a careful attempt to objectively measure reality, and although they may be refined over time, they are always our best hope of getting at the truth.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences

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

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

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

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

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.