Ken Wilber Quotes

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

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

Experimentation is an active science.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

The heart of science is measurement.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

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

… new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and … the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'

I'm a scientist by nature and not by trade.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.

Science is an investigation," Coach said, sanding his hands together. "Science requires us to transform into spies." Put that way, science almost sounded fun. But I'd been in Coach's class long enough not to get my hopes up.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.