Charles Kingsley Quotes

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

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

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

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

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.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

Science demands patience.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

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

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

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

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.