Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

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

if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

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.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will enable the observer to discover general laws governing facts of the kind in question. The two stages, first of observation, and second of inference to a law, are both essential, and each is susceptible of almost indefinite refinement. (1931)

Science is the search for truth.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

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

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

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

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

Science is facts.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The heart of science is measurement.

Experience by itself is not science.

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Science demands patience.

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.