Elon Musk Quotes

You must acquire something of that industrious habit of mind which the study of natural science gives,—the art of comparing, of perceiving true likenesses and true differences, and so of classifying and arranging what you see; the art of connecting facts together in your mind in cause and effect

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are usually wrong, and we test them against the data. Scientists do this in a formal way. It's a way that everyone can go through life; that's how we should be teaching science from a very young age.

I was a science guy in school, numbers and science and formula: what made things work and how to bring them forward - not what happened.

Being a scientist/engineer by nature, I approach everything as a problem.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

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

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

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.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

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

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.