Thomas Huxley Quotes

Just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

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

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

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 a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

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.

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.

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

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

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

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

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

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

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

One of the biggest and most important tools of theoretical physics is the wastebasket.

The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature.

If you're a real scientist, you're constantly open to new data. Nothing is ever 100% validated.

Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.