Joey Santiago Quotes

Science is a quest for understanding.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

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

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Science is facts.

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

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

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

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

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

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

If you didn’t write it down, you didn’t say it.

If You Do Not Write It, You Never Said It

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.

Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

A mystery is solved with a story.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue