Ron Livingston Quotes

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

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.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

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

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

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

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

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.

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

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

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

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

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.